Word: strandings
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...Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti sounded harsh and edgy in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. Bass Samuel Ramey effortlessly reached the far edges of the balcony in his triumphant January recital, but it took several minutes before Warren Jones, his accompanist, adjusted his touch in order to project each melodic strand cleanly...
...machine as an unqualified good. But America's role in that distant war had been small, its trauma of human loss slight. With industry booming, Americans found it not just easy but almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity formed by "God the Machine, Materialistic Empiricism the Son, and Science the Holy Ghost." Its factories, thought Strand's colleague Charles Sheeler, "are our substitutes for religious expression...
...gene expression. The resulting procedure, though the simplest available, might have been designed by Rube Goldberg. The luciferase gene was spliced to the regulatory switch of a gene belonging to a virus that infects plants. The altered two- part piece of DNA was then inserted into a circular strand of DNA, called a plasmid, from the bacterium Agrobacterium. The bacterial plasmid was incubated with tobacco-leaf cells, and the cells were nurtured into full-fledged plants...
...THAT WAS it: superstition made metaphysical reality, through artful and intelligent craftsmanship. Landis is far from the most offensive practitioner of this cinematic strand--few could equal Steven Spielberg's contributions to mass know-nothingness--but it is unfortunate to watch so much talent put to so little good. In his own mind, Landis is a subtle social commentator who is also able to sell tickets. He said he viewed Trading Places as a statement against racism and Spies Like Us, a film universally dismissed as lame, as the first picture to take a stand against President Reagan's "Star...
...surface of that cell, it finds a receptor into which one of its envelope proteins fits perfectly, like a key into a lock. Docking with the cell, the virus penetrates the cell membrane and is stripped of its protective shell in the process. Within half an hour, the strand of RNA and an enzyme the virus carries with it are floating in the cytoplasm, the fluid interior of the cell...