Word: unlocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front seat at crab-mating time. As a live crab trundles by her feet, she snatches it up by its spiny tail to reveal an underbelly of writhing legs and pulsing book gills. Despite years of such intimate contact with the crabs, she is still unable to unlock one vital secret. Murmurs a slightly embarrassed Tierney: "I can't even tell what sex it is." Her husband Matt and son Matthew, 8, could not care less about a crab's sex. With a devilish grin, Matthew places a roll of firecrackers under a hollow crab shell and steps away...
...woman calls HUPD to report that her car is locked in the Broadway garage. Police respond, unlock the gate and escort the woman to her car. She is a member of the Newton Choral Society participating in a recital on campus. She had met a friend afterwards, who had kept her past the garage's 11:45 p.m. closing time, she says...
...would-be rescuers, mostly passers-by and circulation desk staffers, scrambled but failed to locate a maintenance closet key, which could also unlock the elevator doors, Lonoff said. A key was finally located, but not before a bystander called the Cambridge Fire Department...
...tools of molecular biology have enormous potential for both good and evil. Lurking behind every genetic dream come true is a possible Brave New World nightmare. After all, it is the DNA of human beings that might be tampered with, not some string bean or laboratory mouse. To unlock the secrets hidden in the chromosomes of human cells is to open up a host of thorny legal, ethical, philosophical and religious issues, from invasion of privacy and discrimination to the question of who should play God with man's genes...
...high school speech teacher. "Every time we saved $5,000, interest rates jumped and we needed $10,000." Even with a solidly middle-class income (now $40,000 between them), Dribin and Eysenbach, 39, a part-time teacher and actor, wondered whether they would ever be able to unlock the door to home ownership...