Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honored and excited by the prospect of leading UCLA, one of the nation's great public universities, at a time of particular challenge for higher education," Carnesale said in a statement...
...still decades away from the prospect of creating human beings by injecting the DNA of a living person into an unfertilized egg. The challenges overcome by Dr. Wilmut pale in comparison to the obstacles presented by primates and people. Even optimistic scientists concede that creating Albert Einstein II is still a distant prospect (Never mind that Einstein is dead and cloning dead people will be even harder that duplicating their live counterparts...
...twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...
...intrigued by this event for several reasons. First, it's made me incredibly aware of how much I have in common with those men. Like the AD voyeurs, I find myself incredibly turned on by the prospect--let alone the actual live event--of watching two women have sex. In fact, I venture to say that, like them, one of my greatest pleasures in life is having sex with women. Frankly, I wish I could have been there. I would have loved to have attended such a sexual soiree. But alas, I could not. Not only...
...teams--one of Harvard and St. Lawrence, and one of Yale and Colgate--will be shown the postseason gate at the conclusion of tonight's games. The other two are given stays of execution for at least four more days, but it is the prospect of this first fate which should scare the shorts off of seventh-year coach Ronn Tomassoni, fourth-year team manager Andy Gunderson...and every Harvard skater in between...