Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every institution [at Radcliffe] is in need of money," said Anne Colby, director of the Murray Center. The gift "means that we will have the money to support more research. Doctoral candidates who want to use our data can be provided with funds or small grants. We can have lots more workshops and education programs on people...
...think his plan should be updated or revised," Huerta said. "Based on my own emperical observations, you have to use a chainsaw. You should go for the big kill...
Parents of children enrolled in the Morse Cambridge School also testified that the school's textbooks were dated. One parent read from a social studies book--currently in use--which urged students to prepare themselves for a time when people will walk on the moon...
...geneticist today would even talk about creating a master race. Scientists are careful to point out that experiments in gene therapy will be aimed at curing hereditary disease and relieving human suffering, not at producing some sort of superman. But what if people want to use the technology to improve genes that are not defective but merely mediocre? Could genetic engineering become the cosmetic surgery of the next century? Will children who have not had their genes altered be discriminated against...
From India, the Tibetan government-in-exile condemned the Chinese crackdown and said it feared the Communists would use the riots "as an excuse to resort to more repressive methods." But the bloodshed may increase international pressure on Beijing to start negotiations with the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959, has accused the Chinese of stalling on proposed talks to make fiercely independent Tibet a self-governing entity "in association" with the People's Republic...