Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy, who moved into the apartment of some American friends to avoid Iraqi troops in her hotel lobby, was initially able to tour the city by taxi with two European journalists. Some diplomats, including Belgians, provided facilities for filing stories. On Aug. 14 some Europeans made an early-morning run for Saudi Arabia; Murphy, who was staying across town, could not join them. Two days later, Iraq ordered all American and British citizens to report to hotels and register with Iraqi forces. "I did make a couple of taxi trips after that," she said, "but it was pretty nerve-racking...
...experiments rely on a technology that has evolved over the past 12 years. Each uses a virus to act as a kind of biological taxi to transport a desired gene into the nucleus of human blood cells. In one experiment, a team led by Dr. Steven Rosenberg proposes to treat malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, with blood cells that have been genetically altered to transform them into tiny factories for a tumor-killing protein...
...there is no guarantee that gene therapy will be effective against any of these illnesses. Some genes are too big to fit inside the viral taxi. And things could go wrong. The new genes might not "turn on" inside the body, or they might get misplaced in the gene sequence and rather than fight cancers, start triggering them instead. Ultimately, the only way to see what happens is with carefully designed experiments. As Dr. Anderson puts it, "Now we can find out if gene therapy is really going to work...
...down-at-the-heels oil town. Not anymore. Across the city last week, thousands of bag-toting volunteers scoured streets and back alleys for litter. Others painted over graffiti and planted hundreds of red begonias. Freshly remodeled hotels stocked up on ethnic food; civic workers conducted courtesy classes for taxi drivers; and the police readied 125 new patrol cars for escort duty...
...prophecy, part satire. On future Earth the unit of money is, of course, a "credit." Folks flick on the wall-screen TV to check out ESPN's coverage of the Toronto-Tokyo game, then perfect their tennis stroke with the help of a teacher on hologram. Johnnycab, the robot taxi driver, chirps irrelevant pleasantries until passengers want to throttle him. A married couple debate whether to move to Mars -- as if it were the suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps they should visit Rekall Inc., a mind-travel company that offers "the memory of a lifetime...