Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curtiss is still working to develop a more perfect-or defective-microbe for recombinant DNA research. But for the time being, genetic engineers have available a tailor-made microbe that cannot survive outside the laboratory and that cannot colonize or even live in the human intestinal tract. Nor is this the only indication that the bug would make a poor pathogen, or disease organism. Curtiss' handmade microbe will not survive in human serum-including that of cancer patients. It is also easily destroyed by common household detergents...
...pulls into a Holiday Inn in Battle Creek, Mich. It has been traveling all night from Peoria, 111. Several band members drag themselves into the clean sheets of the hotel. Dolly sleeps on the bus until 2:30 p.m. She appears in the hotel dining room looking perfect and is promptly mobbed. A woman named Ruby asks for Dolly's autograph. Dolly signs. An hour and many autographs later, Ruby gets up to leave. Dolly yells, "Bye, Ruby. Have a nice day." Ruby is radiant...
...coach Michael Horn didn't enjoy a perfect weekend. The Radcliffe sailors, who had been looking forward to a strong season, floundered to a pair of fifth-place finishes in local waters. The women finished far behind MIT at both Saturday's Regis Bowl meet at Wellesley and the President's Trophy regatta at B.U. on Sunday. The only bright spot for the Crimson was the performance of newcomer Kit Tilly, who won her first collegiate meet in the affair...
...last year's sprints, Penn in one stroke ruined a perfect season and ended Harvard's three-year domination of Eastern rowing, which had included two consecutive sprint titles...
...turn your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made a half a dozen films in which short, hebbishy guys come out on top. By far the best of these is Play It Again, Sam, the tale of a romantically unsuccessful Bogart fan. In Bogart Allen has found the perfect role model for the short uglies of the world; after all, for Bogie--and life--dames are simple. This is the only one of Allen's films that he does not direct himself, and what is lost in manic humor is gained in coherence and sensitivity. Diane Keaton plays...