Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season, but researchers are getting closer--just a little--to curing the common cold. An experimental remedy called tremacamra seems to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half, with no bothersome side effects. When sprayed in the nose six times a day, tremacamra blocks the site where cold viruses latch onto cells. Don't toss the tissues yet. Tremacamra was tested on only one cold virus; there are hundreds more out there...
...unravel the puzzle, the scientists infected the unformed wing region of day-old chicken embryos with a virus carrying a T-box gene known as Tbx-4. A day later, they transferred the tissue to other embryos still in their shells. The transplanted cells quickly grew into recognizable legs. By contrast, when the scientists transferred wing tissue without first infecting it with Tbx-4 genes, the tissue always grew into wings. That shows that Tbx-4 contains a full genetic blueprint for a leg, says Belmonte...
...CHERNOBYL VIRUS HAS BEEN DESTROYING HARD DRIVES FOR 14,460 MINUTES...
Even college students have caught the moderation virus. They're anti-affirmative action, but they'd like to see more diversity on campus. They'll march for a living wage for Harvard's workers, but they'll be in an investment bank earning more than 50K in a couple of years. They'll qualify their political leanings with a, "But I voted for/believe in/don't believe in, blank." They don't want to be pigeonholed, labeled or defined. The danger in this is that they are so busy not being labeled, defined or pigeonholed, that they don't take...
...dust settles, thesis-writers have reached page 83 in the scanning of their hard copy, and most have jury-rigged their hard drive to give access to their files, that thought fades away. What are the chances of another virus striking Harvard again this year? Life at Harvard goes on, and the future prevention of lost paper disasters still isn't considered worth the effort required to back up one's entire hard drive. DANCING IN TOYLAND-Meredith B. Osborn; COMPUTER VIRUS WOES-Breezy H. Tollinger