Word: simians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesperson, was invited and in attendance. Plimpton came forward midway through the ceremonies to offer a few words of congratulations to the fictitious monkey and his real-life benefactors of PBH, Plimpton in a charateristically low-key presentation, commented on thesimilarity of his first name to that of thefictional simian, but did not read from hisfavorite Curious George book, as had beenadvertised. He did, however, briefly paraphrasepart of one book...
...monkey disease, now known as Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), turned out to be "the very best animal model system to study AIDS," Hunt says...
Associate Professor of Microbiology Ronald C. DesRosiers, who directs the center's AIDS research project, says several primate centers are now trying to find other viruses in wild monkeys that are genetically similar to AIDS. Certain strains of the human and simian viruses, he said, share as much as three-quarters of the same genetic material...
Apparently the anthropology chairman was planning to sell the drugs and had set up a corporation named Simian Expansions to launder the money. Buettner-Janusch pleaded not guilty in the trial which followed, a large part of his defense resting on character witnesses who testified to his brilliance and untarnished reputation. During the trial his lawyer, Jules Ritholtz, hypothesized that Jolly himself could have planted the samples of LSD and Quaaludes...
...coincidentally the entrance to the Science Center--and spent an hour of my valuable time copying blurred illustrations that upon later examination looked like the drunken scribblings of a dyslexic orangutang. Everyone knows that the dyslexic orangutang was never going to score above the median, and since the crafty simian had exchanged his notes for mine, I was in for a tough time. Orgo lab second semester could have been called "Fun with Carcinogens." Every chemical I touched is even now burrowing deep inside my genes, doing who knows what mischief to my cellular structure...