Word: tubefuls
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...quick fellows who can bat .296; it is for skinny nonathletes who can memorize earned-run averages. Football is for Republicans. But what character flaw is fed by watching tennis six hours a day for two weeks when the French Open, Wimbledon or the U.S. Open is on the tube...
...stands for polymerase chain reaction, polymerase being the enzyme that triggers the replication of DNA inside dividing cells. All PCR does is reproduce, in a test tube, this basic biological process, turning it into a chain reaction that can be endlessly repeated by having a machine alternately raise and lower the temperature in the test tube. "The beauty of PCR is that it's technically so simple," observes cell biologist Peter Parham of Stanford University...
...fairly effective control method for a limited area is a product called Daminex, which is a tube filled with pesticide-soaked cotton. Mice take the cotton to build nests, and the pesticide kills ticks. On Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, scientists are planning to release large numbers of a tiny wasp called Hunterellus hookeri. Success is uncertain. The wasps do kill some tick nymphs, but may in fact need a large and healthy tick population to maintain their own numbers. Other drastic preventives that householders mutter about while untaping their trousers -- region-wide burning of fields, pesticide spraying or slaughter...
...declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government would control the production of children...
...Walt's original concept for Epcot. His Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was intended to be sealed under a glass dome to keep out heat and humidity. It was to have had stores, apartments, schools, churches, offices, marinas, parks, golf courses, a monorail, a vacuum-tube trash-disposal system, a central computer controlling everything from streetlights to hotel reservations -- and it was to have housed temporary residents who were to abide by Disney codes of dress and behavior...