Word: petry
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thomas E. Petri '62 (R-Wis.) was involved in politics even at Harvard. As a member of the Undergraduate Council, he worked to free up study hours at Lamont Library and to lift restrictions on campus-wide parties over Head of the Charles weekend...
...Barney Frank ['61 (D-Mass.)] and I were on the student council together," Petri said...
Frank remembers Petri...
SCIENCE: Tempest in a Petri Dish...
What brought the research into the human arena was the rapidly developing field of in-vitro fertilization. In clinics popping up around the world, couples who have trouble conceiving can have their sperm and eggs mixed in a Petri dish -- and the resulting embryos transferred to the mother's womb. The process is distressingly hit-or-miss, though, and the odds of a successful pregnancy go up with the number of embryos used. In a typical in-vitro procedure, doctors will insert three to five embryos in hopes that, at most, one or two will implant...