Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sitcoms are trying to make you cry until you laugh this season. A new term has even been coined to describe the hybrid form: dramedies. Three new series -- ABC's Hooperman and The "Slap" Maxwell Story and CBS's Frank's Place -- are ostensibly comedies, but they go for few jokes and have no laughter on the sound track. As for the more traditional sitcoms, they are tackling such heavy subjects as AIDS (Designing Women), Alzheimer's disease (The Golden Girls) and teenage drunk driving (this week's segment of Valerie's Family). On a recent episode of Kate & Allie...
...laboratory, Chinese scientists have been unusually successful in developing hearty strains of crops. Several hybrid rice varieties yield up to five tons per acre, as much as 180% more than a standard American strain. The Chinese have also improved crop yields by pioneering the biological control of insect pests, using ducks, frogs and even other insects. Farmers employ wasps, for example, to control stinkbug infestations of fields...
...imagine such a beast, such a beast, such a hybrid of music and cacophony, of art and sleaze, of brilliance and banality, then you have some idea of what Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead is like...
Scientists tried to save the bird from extinction by crossbreeding it with a hardier sparrow. But Orange Band died before they could complete the job, leaving five hybrid Dusky Seasides -- one of them seven-eighths pure...
...birders often fly hundreds of miles only to find a bird that cannot be officially listed. Last winter Marsh and other top birders went to Charleston, S.C., to see a rare bird, said to be a gray-headed gull but that could be ruled a hybrid. "It's always a crapshoot," says Paul Sykes, a Georgia ornithologist. "The bird can also leave just before you get there. That's why we try to get there as quickly...