Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientists chose to work with Pitxl because it is present during the early stages of the chicken embryo's development. Logan and Tabin believe that Pitxl activates other genes responsible for limb-specific development...
...Ashwin Vasan '99, who has co-directed the last two Ghungroo productions, says the show has gradually evolved to a point where it can better represent a wider variety of South Asian regions, from past to present time...
...biology advances, some of the differences between the sexes are turning out to be a little more complicated than we learned in 10th-grade biology, when testosterone was clearly the boy hormone and estrogen the girl hormone. Not only are both hormones present in both sexes, but estrogen is a real busybody, acting on just about every kind of tissue there is. Angier likens it to chocolate, "since almost every two-bit organ or tissue wants a bite out of it." Men deficient in estrogen aren't more manly; they're more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce...
...each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both the old and new left, shocking...
Appearance: "Because of the way the camera lens distorts, the round collars and chokers don't present her well...