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...other scientists such as molecular biologist Walter Gilbert, whose Biogen Inc, S.A. had been operating for about three years.) But instead of presenting the Ptashne case straightforwardly, administrators chose to cloak it in the framework of "technology transfer," thereby cluttering the consideration at hand. Consequently, when the Ptashne case sunk, it unnecessarily dragged an issue of crucial importance to the future of the University and society with it, in the minds of many observers...
John Tremont, 52, an American-born painter living in France, flies to Los Angeles after learning of his mother's heart attack. He finds her in a serious but stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings...
Holiday Inn in Houghton Lake to celebrate, with a Southern-style pig roast, the start of drilling in a gas well that may go as deep as 20,000 ft., or almost twice the depth of any other well sunk so far in the state. Meanwhile, the corporate jets that brought them to Houghton Lake waited wingtip to wingtip at nearby Grayling McNamara Airport to whisk them back out again at nightfall...
...lightweights, rowing in Annapolis, were sunk by Navy, losing the Haines Cup for the first time since 1976 in a storm that even left the sailors thinking they would soon be swimmers...
...boat probably would have sunk if it weren't given a pump by our coach after the race," cox Greg Soghikian said...