Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the pressure bearing down on him from all sides, Lance moved last week to ease the strain in at least one area-his precarious financial position. He put on the selling block his posh Northside Atlanta home, purchased in 1975 for $400,000 and fondly dubbed "Butterfly Manna" by LaBelle. Asking price: a neat $2 million. LaBelle said the intended sale "is just a sign we plan to be in Washington for a long, long time." In the capital, a great many signs were pointing in the other direction...
...with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible into...
Thinking Man's CB Reading a book without using hands or eyes is made pleasantly possible by a Los Angeles company called Books on Tape. An immediate hit with housewives and commuters who drive to work-not to mention armchair listeners suffering from workaday eye-strain-the audio tomes are cassettes that are rented by mail at prices ranging from $6.50 to $7.50 plus $1.75 mailing charge for a 30-day period. Recorded by professional actors, the tapes for bookworms are grouped arbitrarily in six main categories: Americana (e.g., H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner), Classics (Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain), Contemporary...
...most important reason that most geneticists and molecular biologists now oppose the legislation is a growing conviction, based on continued experiments, that current recombinant DNA research is safe. Some strains of E. coli normally reside in billions in the human intestine, a fact that encouraged the fear that new laboratory forms would spread like the plague among human beings. But research has shown that E. coli K12, which traces its ancestry to bacteria taken from a human patient at Stanford University in 1922, altered genetically during its life in the labs; among other changes, it can no longer colonize...
...suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine goes, was sent to cover a flower show for Living, missed the crucial unveiling of a new strain of begonia and, as punishment, was made a foreign correspondent...