Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobby against the taboo come about? One strain of its philosophy springs from the fringes of the children's rights movement, which insists that small children be granted all the rights of adults. Some have taken that to mean the right to be sexually active with any partner at all. Says Larry Constantine, an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at Tufts, one such self-styled sexual radical: "Children have the right to express themselves sexually, even with members of their own family...
...class committee does not want to put undo strain on the company," Caryl E. Yanow '80, class marshal and senior class committee member, said yesterday. "We only want to make a symbolic gesture in support of the striking workers...
...recombinant DNA technique being tried by Biogen and other companies. Scientists chemically snip a gene from the DNA of one organism. The gene, which contains the code for producing a certain protein, is then chemically spliced into the DNA of another life form, usually a harmless laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Now the genetically reprogrammed bug has the ability to produce something new. It begins cranking out the protein and, given the proper nourishment, making millions of carbon copies of itself, each capable of producing the same protein. Though each creates only a tiny amount...
...vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor found a matching silver tray, called a paten, and a gilt-bronze ladle with perforations to strain grape pulp from the sacramental wine...
...only sets blacks against whites, but husbands against wives and parents against children. Eventually the K.K.K. makes grotesque threats, boycotts start to destroy the town's economy, and it seems that a new Civil War might break out. Since the story's underpinnings are so weak, the strain on credulity borders on the ridiculous. It is as if an I Love Lucy episode about a lost purse suddenly turned into an overheated melodrama about the stock market crash...