Word: petri
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...fares not available on, say, Expedia - a legitimate move designed to draw customers and thus avoid having to pay commissions to the independent agents. However, opponents say, if the Big Five get together, they are likely to offer such fares on their own combination site, thus providing an online petri dish for anticompetitive collusion. At first, say critics, those fares will beat those of their competitors, but once the competitors are forced into submission - either by bankruptcy or "if you can't beat them, join them - the prices will be jacked...
...experimental treatment includes steps that sound a lot like science fiction: Harvesting the patient's own skin cells, growing them in a petri dish, and transecting those cells with the gene that creates nerve growth factor - a substance required to maintain normal brain function. The final step is the most dramatic: During an 11-hour procedure, doctors drilled a hole in the right side of the patient's brain and implanted the cells...
Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wild showed precocity at age three; by six he had a fluent technique. While still a teenage student of the distinguished Dutch pianist Egon Petri, he was already a concert-hall veteran. In 1937 Arturo Toscanini engaged Wild to fill the coveted position of staff pianist for his NBC Symphony Orchestra. Toscanini could be irascible, but he and Wild hit it off. "We both loved music so tirelessly," Wild says. The fiery maestro made Wild famous in 1942 by inviting him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in a nationally broadcast concert...
Accidents happen: aniline dye falls into a 19th century German researcher's petri dish that contains a bacterial culture, revealing that it preferentially stains and kills certain bacteria. The discovery eventually makes chemotherapy possible...
Sheri Schellhaass is a scientist whose version of the Petri dish is a plastic tray displaying Galaxy Blast Fruit Roll-Ups. And she's a foodie, a culinary whiz, in fact, who prefers egg-salad sandwiches for lunch and wears a hairnet at work. If you're part of the foie gras set, stop reading. But if you want yogurt on a stick, you gotta meet...