Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Geron and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas infected normal cells with a virus that had been genetically engineered to switch telomerase on. In every case the cells' telomeres lengthened instead of shortening, while the cells stayed healthy and continued to divide. "When we submitted the paper, we were at 20 generations past the usual limit," says Jerry Shay, a cell biologist at Southwestern. "Now we're at 40, with no end in sight...
...close of The Crimson's first century, amore elaborate version of this history waspublished in a book form by Michael Ryan, andscores of Crimson alums gathered at the HarvardClub of Boston to celebrate the paper'scentennial...
...when I returned for the shoot in November, things were different. The paper had been redesigned. My years of reporting, assistant night editing, and page-proofing didn't help me much. The new arrangement of the paper meant that I couldn't help much with the computer...
...paper is finished. As I stand upstairs writing my last official close-out note, a magical, technological process is taking place downstairs. When the assistant night editors hit "print" on the computer screen, the page appears not on a piece of paper from the printer but on a negative from the Imagesetter. It's a giant version of those things we get back from CVS when our film is developed. Those negatives, in turn, are burned onto metal plates for use in the press...
...catch the very first copies our very last paper. The ink stains our hands. Were this some other night we might have had to stuff a Section B into the news section by hand. Those nights the ink is up to your elbows, your back and neck ache from leaning over the large, bulky sheets of newsprint. There was no technology to help with things like that...