Word: steps
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...scientists from Penn State University announced that they had succeeded in piecing together the majority of the woolly mammoth's genome, bringing the world one step closer to the Jurassic Park fantasy of using recovered DNA to bring an extinct species back to a shaggy, lumbering existence...
...attempt to date to sequence an extinct animal's DNA. DNA in general breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind the mammoths' extinction, and the effort has brought the cloning question back to the public's mind in a (ahem) mammoth...
...that is active in me,” she said. But in her characteristic reconstructive fashion, Denis modifies her statement. “Maybe—if progression meant an exploration underground so you don’t know where you are, and it becomes too narrow, so you step back...
...sure that we were very distracting to the orchestra members.” Alumni choreographer Claudia F. Schreier ’08 faced a different type of challenge in arranging her work for the production; she had to map out most of the steps in New York, where she now lives, while her dancers were in Boston. This meant that instead of being able to use the dancers to help her fully visualize the piece, Schreier had to use her imagination. “I set out step-for-step from the beginning to the end of the music...
...rally at Harvard Yard was cut short after multiple failed attempts at crowd control, grinding the highly anticipated concert by DJ Girl Talk to a halt. The performance, meant to up the excitement for The Game tomorrow, ended prematurely, with organizers asking the hundreds of attendees to step back. “The ultimate decision to end the concert was that of the Harvard University Police Department,” said College Events Board President John F. Pararas ’08-’09, who is also a former Crimson magazine writer. Officers at the scene referred requests...