Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third Eye. What happened might strain credulity even in the context of a Rosemary Rogers novel. Working only at night for more than a year, she rewrote one of her childhood tales 24 times, then mailed it to Avon. Today the author lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her three oldest children are now away from home. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit...
...biggest, untapped sources of spectator sports this time of year is watching people take exams. The best ones to watch are those in which the participants face real strain, such as exams in pre-med courses. This year, the season will be starting early, with Chemistry 170, "Bio-organic Chemistry' kicking off on January 18, with mammoth six-hour extravaganza...
...host-vector systems refer to Eschirichia coli, a strain of bacteria that rarely survives outside the lab, which can be used as a host bacteria for recombinant DNA experiments...
...requirement of the EK-2 hosts in p-3 labs that left Meselson with his only reservation about the report. "I think the guidelines they set up would be safe for p-4 experiments," Meselson said Wednesday, adding that he didn't think the weak strain EK-2 requirement was used at any of the other 12 research sites funded...
...Cape Cod tourist town, dreading a ghost town future for Mashpee, sought federal loans to shore up the town's teetering credit rating. As municipal bond sales and mortgages became increasingly difficult to negotiate, race relations in the town, which is one-third Indian, showed signs of strain. Things seemed even bleaker when the residents of Gay Head, Mass., a town across the Sound on Martha's Vineyard, voted to give all of their public land to another Wampanoag group, rather than risk a protracted court battle...