Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALUMNI CAN BE the admissions office's best friends. After all, they provide the office with a unique service, tackling the heavy responsibility of interviewing students. If the admissions office does not want to strain its friendship, the officials should consider reverting to the old form. If time commitments are a problem, officials could contact the alumni who have not spent enough time on their comments and either ask them to be more specific or discontinue their interviewing. Even though the comments might not be as detailed as they would like, at least the alumni's impressions would be honest...
...comes a new book that promises to help owners integrate computers into their lives intellectually, emotionally and practically: Electronic Life (Knopf; 211 pages; $12.95). Author Michael Crichton is no self-anointed microprocessor guru but the Harvard Medical School graduate turned bestselling author (The Andromeda Strain) and movie director (Coma, The Great Train Robbery). It turns out that Crichton is also a computer expert of sorts. He wrote his senior thesis at Harvard in 1963 on a mainframe and has since created a computer adventure game and designed software programs for cost analysis and shooting-schedule planning in the movie business...
Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength-in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose...
...different stratum of society. The Lubonskis are nobles, the Bukowskis are members of the gentry, and the Buks are peasants. To keep the scions of these families rushing forth to affront Cossacks in 1648 and Germans in 1939, Michener has had to rely on a series of coincidences that strain credulity as each new era unfolds...
...with Jiang Qing, formed the Gang of Four. "In the old days in Yanan," said one friend, "he would listen first, then talk. Now he talked but would not listen." At the end he would mumble and grunt, interpreters had to bend close to Mao's lips to strain sense from the mumbling. But, by then, all those once close to him had been killed or exiled from his inner court. Jiang Qing transmitted his orders...