Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drugs are created by underground chemists who tinker with the molecular structure of illegal narcotics to produce variants that are not explicitly banned by federal law. Thus it is legal to make and use designer drugs. But it is by no means safe, as those who toyed with MPTP have learned...
Network TV is a notoriously cyclical business, and few industry observers expect ABC's troubles to last. "What ABC has done this past season is what NBC did the season before--make a lot of bad choices," says NBC Chairman Grant Tinker. "It'll take time to turn that ocean liner of bad choices around, but they'll do it." ABC has announced plans to introduce a spin-off of Dynasty next fall, and it has several major mini-series in the works, including a ten-hour dramatization of John Jakes' best seller North and South and a 20-hour...
Sawing the ends off his long sticks, fashioning a collage of tape and talcum, Gretzky remains after the others to tinker and think. "If anyone wants Neil Diamond tickets," someone advises the room with a shout, "call Dorothy." Gretzky looks up in puzzlement. "Who's Neil Diamond...
...Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek...
...controversy; the issue arises as one problem in the relationship between science and public policy. Technology, whether it be artificial hearts or atom bombs, continually outruns both ethical standards and public policy in two ways. The sometimes inconceivable new power of scientific advances that give us the ability to tinker with DNA, to replace a defective heart, disrupts the ethical standards we use to judge those powers. Secondly, the sheer speed at which science forces issues upon us outstrips ethical standards. Rapid technological change leaves little time to assess consequences; we cannot know what is at stake, because science carves...