Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That this exciting new research holds great promise but could also pose some peril was stressed in the day-long testimony before Senator Edward Kennedy's health subcommittee. Califano called recombinant DNA "a scientific tool of enormous potential." He also warned about possible-though unknown-hazards and concluded: "There is no reasonable alternative to regulation under law." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, involved in the controversy over genetic-engineering projects at Harvard and M.I.T., argued for the public right to regulate the research. Said he: "Genetic manipulation to create new forms of life places biologists at a threshold similar...
...road trip you want (and why didn't you say so sooner?), gas up and tool out to Springvale, Maine. There the Second Annual Mousam Valley Folk and Bluegrass Festival sponsored by the Nasson College Student Association begins Saturday at 2 p.m. at Nasson College, $4.50 gets you a 12-count-em-12 hours of performances from the likes of Orrin Starr and Garry Mehalic, Bango Dan and the Midnite Plowboys, and Lunch at the Dump. Plus "country dancing" with two professional callers. Could be worth the drive, but check the weather report first...
...recasting of the great betrayer Judas Iscariot (Ian MacShane). Far from the calculating hypocrite of tradition, the TV Judas is a confused young man who leads the soldiers to Jesus so he can clear himself, never realizing that a trial will occur. He is the innocent tool of Zerah (Ian Holm), a fictional priest who is the villain in the Sanhedrin...
...from the Kentucky hill country, but like many impoverished Southerners, her parents moved north to Detroit during the Depression. She was born there in 1939 and named Mary Jean. Her father Guy became a toolmaker in a brass factory, where he prided himself on being able to devise any tool his bosses needed; often he would bring them home to show "Babe," as he called her. Says Lily: "I was about 15 when I visited the factory where my father had worked for 35 years. I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that he could...
...knowledge of poetry can become a useful tool in the game of practical politics, he said--Frost's poems about New Hampshire indicated to him that the state had an independent and unpredictable streak...