Word: wave
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Last year Dolly the cloned sheep was received with wonder, titters and some vague apprehension. Last week the announcement by a Chicago physicist that he is assembling a team to produce the first human clone occasioned yet another wave of Brave New World anxiety. But the scariest news of all--and largely overlooked--comes from two obscure labs, at the University of Texas and at the University of Bath. During the past four years, one group created headless mice; the other, headless tadpoles...
Stone says that such goodwill is not as common in Massachusetts. When driving in Texas, Stone says he waves to fellow drivers and that they will often wave back. In Massachusetts, they "flip...
Williams says community policing would not be a viable philosophy if Cambridge was in the midst of a crime wave. Crime, however, is dropping in nearly every category, mimicking a national trend...
...part of Mexico's wider emergency. Much of the violence stems from uncontrolled drug trafficking and the economic crisis of 1994, from which the country is recovering, but not fast enough. The erosion of the 70-year P.R.I. stranglehold on power is another big factor, similar to the crime wave that blossomed in Russia after the collapse of communism. Until Mexico's new democracy builds effective judicial institutions--and that may take a generation or more--thugs can run amuck. "Criminals were practically licensed under the P.R.I.," says Roy Godson, a national-security expert at Georgetown University. "The old rules...
...many in the industry, profits have melted under the costs of these incentives. They fell 24% in 1996--dropping 300% from the mid-1980s--and remained flat last year, pounded by a wave of delinquencies as consumers maxed out their debt. "The credit-card free-for-all has come back to haunt the industry," says Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research. To stanch the southern flow of profits, card issuers are seeking to edge up their income by retrenching on offers and charging penalties, new fees and higher rates...