Word: wreck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on recombinant DNA [April 18] your reporter quoted me as saying: "Those who claim we are letting loose an Andromeda strain are either hysterics or are trying to wreck a whole new field of research." My actual view is this: "Claims about letting loose an Andromeda strain are promoting public hysteria and may wreck a whole new field of research...
...moral support, and surplus armament, and possibly a few men, if it should ultimately prove necessary, can turn the tide of a lost war, 3000 miles from home against the mightiest military machine the world has known. Both of these statements are fantastic nonsense. Our moral support will not wreck a single tank nor check the explosion of a single shell, and as for economic support...
...medicine's long history of safely handling highly contagious bacteria and viruses. Nor, he says, do they understand how difficult it is for a microbe to become pathogenic. He adds: "Those who claim we are letting loose an Andromeda strain are either hysterics or are trying to wreck a whole new field of research." Less acerbically, Chemist John Abelson pointed out in last week's Science that in five years of work with recombinant DNA there has not been a single reported case of infection. The evidence so far suggests that virulent combinations of genes are highly unlikely...
...five southern matches, tilts that don't count for the record, did not go well for the Crimson. After turning the Rambling Wreck of Georgia Tech into just a plain wreck, 7-2, Fish's charges fell to Georgia...
...hope and love impossible. "We can't stop and we can't go back. There's nothing else," Henry cries in despair. But even a drama of despair can offer testimony to the power of human endurance. At the end, when Henry and Eleanor re-mask, confronting the wreck of their lives with equanimity, they score a small triumph--a triumph in which the Leverett House company richly shares...