Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Crimson trainer Pete Provinzano worked feverishly to patch up the bulky forward, Fleming went to work and scored four quick points on a jumper and a tough lay-up. Harvard point guard Calvin Dixon (no relation to Robin), who orchestrated the last-second heroics, put the game away with two free throws, and UNH failed to score in the final four seconds...
Around Matewan, W. Va. (pop. 803), probably one-tenth of the inhabitants are Hatfield kin. Clarence ("Dutch") Hatfield, 69, Ellison's grandson, lives up the hollow from Matewan. A short walk away his great-grandfather Ephraim, the family progenitor, is buried in what used to be a potato patch, and a little way beyond is Dutch's birthplace. Says...
When his supervisor suggested he stock up on waterbed patches, Greg Higgins, manager of Store 24, thought the man was crazy. But then Higgins reflected and realized that "when someone needs a waterbed patch, he really needs it," so he invested in a small shelf's worth. Sure enough, a couple of months later a woman came into the store at 2 a.m., looked around and exclaimed, "Oh, my God--you have them!" To Higgin's stupefaction, she bought two packages of patches. "How often does she expect the thing to get punctured?" he remembers wondering...
...genes of viruses and bacteria. Rather, for the past four decades, Geneticist Barbara McClintock has been carefully breeding and crossbreeding corn, trying to cull from it some kernels of truth about the secrets of genetic diversity, just as the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel did in his famous pea patch more than a century ago. McClintock's colleagues, caught up in the latest wizardry of genetic engineering, have long marveled at the skill and diligence with which she pursued such classical genetics, but they were sometimes patronizing about her work. After all, it seemed totally out of the mainstream...
...renounce the hands-on healing that launched Roberts, now 63, to fame 30 years ago. But, insists Orthopedic Surgeon James Winslow, the facility's chief executive officer: "What we're doing here is not a substitute for good medicine. We'll stop the bleeding or patch the air leak in the lung and pray at the same time." No medical procedures are expressly forbidden, but abortions will not be performed for birth control. The facility will draw its patients primarily from Roberts' 3 million followers or "partners," half of whom donated all the money needed...