Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strikes are coming at a convenient time for Asian leaders, who plan to use the next few years to turn inward and grapple with long-neglected domestic problems, including the twin ills of overpopulation and underemployment. According to a new United Nations study, Asia must create no fewer than one billion new jobs over the next 30 years just to keep pace with the population growth. If the U.S. should decide to take on a new Asian "commitment" after Viet Nam, helping create those jobs could be one variety of body count worth achieving...
...cell from a tadpole of the same species. The egg, discovering that it had a full set of chromosomes, instead of the half set found in unfertilized eggs, responded by beginning to divide as if it had been normally fertilized. The result was a tadpole that was the genetic twin of the tadpole that provided the nucleus. Gurdon's experiment was also proof of what geneticists have long known: that all of the genetic information necessary to produce an organism is coded into the nucleus of every cell in that organism...
...worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would be the "clonal farm," where anyone could keep a deep-frozen identical twin on hand for organ transplants...
Today's doubleheader with Yale is still set to begin at 1 p.m. depending on the condition of the field. The Brown game will be held on Sunday or Monday contingent on the successful completion of the Yale twin-bill...
Composed of chips of life, snatches of dialogue, news flashes, commercial interruptions, sight gags and puns arranged to resemble an eccentric audio-visual TV script, The Sweetmeat Saga is a nicely transparent put-on about the disappearance of Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, twin rock superstars of the '60s. In keeping with the author's mythic intent, Pookie and Paul never appear. As the subjects of a nation-stopping search, however, their presence is never in doubt...