Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September morning in 1928, British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming was discarding used culture plates that had been left in a pile on his laboratory workbench while he was on vacation. He noticed that one of the plates contained a blob of moldy contaminant that had apparently grown from particles wafting in through an open window. Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass...
...part of the body or another--the lung, the breast, the brain. Over time, a single abnormal cell becomes two, then four, then eight, then 16. Early on, these cells develop a repertoire of "tricks" that confer a survival advantage. Among other things, the tricks ensure that mutation will pile on mutation by shucking off, or silencing, genes that ordinarily monitor replicating DNA for chemical errors. The malignant cells quickly become resistant to the poisons physicians prescribe to kill them. They also acquire the disturbing ability to stimulate the formation of nutrient-bearing blood vessels, thus spurring their own growth...
...those recruits are beginning to pile up, giving Harvard one of the deepest benches that it has ever had. Also, they are getting older, so if the Crimson wants to win the Ivies, it had better get around to doing...
...those recruits are beginning to pile up, giving Harvard one of the deepest benches that it has ever had. Also, they're getting older, so if the Crimson wants to win the Ivies, it had better get around to doing...
...long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual Basic language, at which the company's army of content partners is already adept. Microsoft is starting the browser game late but with a much larger pile of chips...