Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starzl acknowledges that this insight had also occurred to other researchers. Scientists, going back as far as 1960 Nobel prizewinner Peter Medawar, had come to recognize that tolerance was possible. If bone marrow, for instance, would only accept an interloping cell, the larger system would follow suit. The trouble was, the only way to achieve that was to kill off the body's entire current bone-marrow supply and replace it with another--a technique oncologists use as a last-ditch weapon to try to cleanse patients of such systemic cancers as leukemia and breast cancer...
...nastiest microorganisms, though, are in BSL4. The entire lab is kept at negative air pressure, so if a leak somehow develops, air will flow in rather than out. Researchers generally work in pairs; if one is inadvertently exposed to a microbe, the other can take action. They wear airtight suits hooked directly to a source of clean air. There is no eating, drinking or even going to the bathroom anywhere within BSL4. On the way out, everyone takes a chemical decontamination shower inside the safety suit, followed by a conventional shower. All clothing used in the lab is incinerated...
...university as an extension of the degradation of public culture. The impetus for both is democracy, which aims to secure immediate validation for all possible experiences, including the most vacuous, lurid and debauching. As pornography, crudeness, and sensationalism erode public decorum, great pressure bears on the university to follow suit--to become indiscriminate, to refrain from judging and to take everything...
Nine hundred miles down the Pacific coastline, in Mountain View, California, James Barksdale, president and CEO of Netscape, was bracing for another day of standing in Bill Gates' way. Barksdale slipped into a suit, grabbed a quick breakfast and pointed his Mercedes toward Netscape's Mountain View headquarters...
Graham said yesterday that he could not comment about the lawsuit because he was not aware a civil suit had been filed...