Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staggering expense and sheer size of the genome project were what bothered scientists most when the idea was first broached in 1985 by Sinsheimer, then chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz. "I thought Bob Sinsheimer was crazy," recalls Leroy Hood, a biologist at the California Institute of Technology. "It seemed to me to be a very big science project with marginal value to the science community...
Tracking down the location of a gene requires tedious analysis. But it is sheer adventure when compared with the task of determining the sequence of base pairs in a DNA chain. Small groups of scientists, working literally by hand, have spent years simply trying to sequence a single gene. This hands-on method of sequencing costs as much as a dollar per base pair, and deciphering the entire genome by this method might take centuries...
...this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass demonstrations during the 1960s. Blunt, proud and unequivocal, black embodied the sheer racial confidence that the civil rights movement had engendered...
...York City crime statistics related to the influx of crack were released last week. The sheer numbers are staggering in their implications; and New York City is only the most visible example of a problem spreading throughout the country's urban and inner city areas...
...from the dark documentary stills of Robert Frank to the robust portraiture of Lisette Model. This week he reviews "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989," a sweeping survey of the form's history at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Says he: "This show will impress upon people the sheer variety of the art. There's nothing mechanical about...