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The current buzz word used by Catholics for the process of adapting the Christian message to local traditions is "inculturation." The idea is not new. Four centuries ago, Father Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in China, tried to incorporate the Confucian reverence for ancestors into Catholic ritual. The Vatican quashed...
The experiment was the culmination of years of genetic tinkering by three biochemists: Richard Palmiter, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and Ronald Evans and Neal Birnberg, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. The gene they prepared for insertion into mice was a carefully crafted composite. It...
The discovery, reported in Science, was a serendipitous success for the flight of Columbia in November 1981. That mission had to be cut from 124 hr. to 54 hr. because of a faulty fuel cell, but before aborting the flight, the astronauts were able to complete an experiment with the...
Smith, now 70, became determined to find out if chymopapain, another papaya enzyme, could be used to dissolve the similarly gelatinous core of herniated discs. From 1964 until 1978 more than 15,000 patients had chymopapain injected into their discs in FDA-approved experiments. The chemical proved to be as...
The experiment was "a way of teaching students about alcoholic consumption without preaching at them." Brother Robert Francis Beaulac, director of the Roman Catholic college's infirmary, said.