Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists share many of these concerns, the concept of deciphering the human genome sends most of them into paroxysms of rapture. "It's the Holy Grail of biology," says Harvard biologist and Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert. "This information will usher in the Golden Age of molecular medicine," says Mark Pearson, Du Pont's director of molecular biology. Predicts George Cahill, a vice president at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "It's going to tell us everything. Evolution, disease, everything will be based on what's in that magnificent tape called...
Offensive Line: Joe Madden, George Pyne, David Tauber, Jim Anderson and Dave Pearson are the big guys up front for the Bruins. The Brown offense has scored 14 points in its last three games. This group must share some of the responsiblity for that poor production...
...cheap, simple to use -- and very effective." The sad fact is that any country with a pesticide factory is capable of making deadly gases. Iraq, for example, produced some of its chemical weapons at a pesticide plant at Samarra. "It's a relatively low-tech option," says Graham Pearson, director of Britain's defensive chemical-warfare program at Porton Down. "And Third World countries appear able to obtain aircraft and bombs that they can then modify to deliver the chemical weapons...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...
...theses based on historical--rather than experimental--research. "It is kind of too bad that there are some kinds of theses that are too theoretical and wouldn't get through this department as a thesis. Once in a while they will let a theoretical one through," says Tamra J. Pearson, a fourth year graduate student and teaching fellow...