Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a kid's keen face, deep brown eyes set far apart, and a jaw of character, like the young Katharine Hepburn's. Sometimes the alertness in her eyes and the quick, broad smile are disconnected. At the age of 63, she is at the bottom of her field--scientist, explorer, advocate. This year she is explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, which has a $5 million grant from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to launch the five-year Sustainable Seas Expeditions project. As its leader, Earle will use a new, highly maneuverable submarine to study...
...what the attraction of her life's work is. The scientist in her is drawn to "the place where the history of life actually can be found, not in fossils but in living creatures that represent life as it has been, perhaps, from the beginning of time." The privilege of her vocation is "like having a chance to dive into your own circulatory system and swim around and see how it all fits together...
...generation's Leonardo--scientist, theoretician, artist, writer. The contributions I make do not register in far-off, esoteric reaches, but rather they impact at the mass level. Through my lab work combining vegetables with a frozen dairy subtitute, I have created Veggie-Yo, a vegetarian dessert option for the lactose-intolerant that had a successful trial run in the Harvard dining halls. My theory on the convergence of the sitcom and the hour-long drama--scorned when published in a Harvard Magazine--has led to such hits as "Ally McBeal". Critics for The Harvard Crimson have praised my acting work...
...quietly," she says in the book. "I called everybody I knew, everybody I could think of who might help me buy time--might, in the final analysis, come to my defense." There was an echo of Virginia Kelley in something Clinton said years later to the political scientist James MacGregor Burns. According to Stanley Renshon, author of High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition, when Burns asked Clinton what he would do if Congress constantly thwarted him, Clinton shot back, "Just keep going at 'em till they tire...
...Virginia scientists, though, adapted a technique that has been used for more than a decade to select the sex of cows, horses and pigs. Working with U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist Lawrence Johnson, who invented the method, they stained sperm with a fluorescent dye that latches onto DNA. Measuring the glow of the sperm cells under laser light, they could gauge how much genetic material each one carried. As it happens, X chromosomes have about 2.8% more DNA than Ys. Once the sperm had been distinguished this way, an automated sorting machine separated the Xs from the Ys, and doctors...