Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, forget about taking Women's Studies 101, "Introduction to Women's Studies," because it's not offered this year. Its instructor, one of Harvard's most popular professors, left last year after not receiving tenure (that happens a lot, you'll soon notice...
...outcry in France indeed portends global trouble, it's by no means clear whether it ought to. For all the controversy that GM technology is causing, the fact is that biotech companies have succeeded in dreaming up some extraordinary plants. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison--thanks to a gene that company scientists tweezed out of the common petunia and knitted into their food plants. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps...
Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...
...scientists bred strains of mice with extra copies of a gene coded for a protein that can facilitate communication between neurons. Since one popular theory of memory relates this primary mental capacity to an organism's ability to make associations--say, between a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite--this enhanced communication might promote the recording of associations within the brain, thus creating memories...
That's the narrative setup for Assassins, the sixth and latest installment in the startlingly popular Left Behind series by co-authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, two men who are doing for Christian fiction what John Grisham did for courtroom thrillers. Within three weeks of its publication, the apocalyptic action thriller was No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list--a list that generally doesn't even count sales by the nation's Christian bookstores. So wildly anticipated was Assassins among LaHaye and Jenkins' faithful fans that at midnight on the morning of its release...