Word: tensing
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The son of a Russian metalworker, Brezhnev was born in the Ukrainian industrial town of Kamenskoye (now known as Dneprodzerzhinsk). His father may have taken part in strikes that accompanied the 1905 revolution against Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Brezhnev was ten years old at the time of the...
In recent months, scientists in three fields have made remarkable progress in documenting how these genetic changes take place. Cell geneticists, studying chromosomes, the discrete units into which genes are packaged, have begun to associate specific abnormalities-an extra chromosome, a missing piece of a chromosome-with specific types of...
When asked why his country was trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly, the Libyan ambassador to the U.N. explained, "Israel is not a peace-loving nation." Assuming for a moment the validity of that statement, you wonder whether Libya won't go after Iran and Iraq next. The...
Robin West's father is a Pennsylvania banker used to dealing in tens of millions. The son, now 36 and an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, helps manage a budget of $6 billion and devised the offshore-oil leasing scheme that produced up to $10 billion in federal revenues...
The fairway consists of two principal areas: Future World and World Showcase, both intended, in the words of Disney's trumpeters, to "satisfy the imaginative appetites of the tens of millions of people . . . destined to become 'Epcot travelers.' " Visitors enter through a building that is already a...