Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laboratory near Chicago have designed a special-purpose biochemical "superchip" that can determine gene sequences -- the precise arrangement of the chemical building blocks that make up a strand of DNA -- 1,000 times as fast as conventional means. If it performs as promised, the 1-in.-sq. chip could shave years -- and hundreds of millions of dollars -- off the Human Genome Project, the worldwide effort to decipher each of the 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
...bank, offering a hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than an animal," the master greets him. "If you come with me, I'll teach...
...stopped it. If the Administration couldn't push that through, what were the prospects for the much more complicated contraption that is universal health care? And beyond that, for the remaining two years of the President's term? Given that losses in November's midterm elections will almost certainly shave the Democratic majority in Congress next year, the defeat had Washington asking the most unnerving question any President can hear: Could this be the beginning of the end of Bill Clinton's presidency...
...Once we got inland, Jerry turned out to be mostly fanatical Hitler Youth and conscripts from Italy, Poland and Austria. The one who shot me was so young he'd never needed to shave. You couldn't think about getting killed: either you got them, or they...
...Close Shave...