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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year. It was the middle of the century, and nobody cared much about what would happen at the next click of the cosmic odometer. But today the world runs on computers, and older machines...
...departure from his Seinfeld character, Alexander plays an alien in possession of both charisma and intelligence. The episode will air in the spring, but for those who can't wait to see how Alexander may look, we took some hints from the producers and had our artist render a very liberal interpretation...
...trick, researchers discovered early on, is to take advantage of the infectious power of viruses; burrowing into cells is second nature to them. A virus is nothing more than a tiny strip of DNA or RNA crammed into a protein envelope. Using the tools of molecular biology, scientists render the virus harmless by deleting some or all of its genes, splicing the therapeutic gene into the remaining genetic material and, in a laboratory Petri dish, mixing it with human cells. The altered virus, now called a carrier or vector, can deliver the therapeutic gene into the nucleus with great dispatch...
...death among fetuses and offspring produced by cloning is much higher than it is through natural reproduction--roughly 10 times as high as normal before birth and three times as high after birth in our studies at Roslin. Distressing enough for those working with animals, these failure rates surely render unthinkable the notion of applying such treatment to humans...
...that my anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation," an echo of the murderous deal extended to Noah at the Flood. Moses, however, will not have it. He argues that such a course would render empty God's grand statement in bringing his people out of Egypt; it would also violate the compact he made long ago with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Moses strategically inserts in his argument an echo of the Noah story reminding God that he has sworn off this sort of thing. Astoundingly, God backs...