Word: playfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With tons of soft tissue on ice, geneticists have no shortage of mammoth DNA to play out their fantasy: tweeze a bit of it out, insert it into the ovum of an elephant--a close living cousin--and implant the embryo in the elephant's womb. Before long, a woolly bundle should appear...
...hope in their struggle against this relentless killer. In a report in the journal Science, the gene-splicing wizards at Amgen, one of biotechnology's most successful companies, announced that they had succeeded in identifying and isolating a long-sought enzyme--a so-called protease--that may play a key role in creating the biochemical chaos in the brain that causes Alzheimer...
...likes the baseball play-offs. Purists yearn for the days when just two teams would emerge from the grueling, 162-game slog of the regular season to battle one-on-one on crisp October afternoons. Modern fans too often watch their deserving hometown favorites stumble to an early-round upset. And nonfans run the risk of missing three weeks of Just Shoot...
Even the baseball officials who decreed this clumsy, attenuated and sometimes--as this year--thrilling system don't like the play-offs, although in their case it's the word itself that bothers them. It makes them gag--"play-offs" sounds so much like, oh, hockey, where everyone gets...
...play-offs--sorry, Bud--do enable the Lords of Baseball to count the additional money that jingles in their pockets and, in vintage years like this one, allow the rest of us to be reminded how thrilling the old game can be. This year's were as good as it gets, and the World Series that started Saturday may be just as memorable...