Word: handing
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...Human Genome Project, whose ultimate objective was to sequence the roughly 3 billion DNA letters that comprise our genetic code. Though many young hot-shots argued that the time for the project had not yet arrived, those of us a generation older were seeing at too close hand our parents and spouses falling victim to diseases of genetic predisposition. And virtually all of us knew couples rearing children whose future was clouded by a bad throw of the genetic dice. So the National Academy of Sciences assembled an expert committee that reported one year later that the human instruction book...
...when I went up to Capitol Hill in May 1987 with the N.A.S. report in hand, I promised that long before the genome project was completed we would have cloned many of the key genes predisposing humans to Alzheimer's or to cancers of the breast and colon, all diseases known to run in families. Happily, time has seen our science so move...
...protesters, including two bishops, charging them with disrupting a lawful meeting. As the protesters filed out, many delegates, even those who had just voted three times against gay-rights proposals, watched in tears. Everyone knew the police had been at the ready and that the activists might force their hand by taking over the stage. But had it actually happened? After all, the Conference's logo is a picture of Jesus' embracing arms and the words of the Apostle Paul: WE WHO ARE MANY ARE ONE BODY...
Lajer-Burcarth, on the other hand, has been in Cambridge for years, and already teaches both introductory-level classes and advanced seminars...
...strange metaphysics of the vice presidency (a nothing who may, in a heartbeat, become everything) give the office (and the vice presidential nominee) a sleight-of-hand quality. Now you focus on him (her). Now you don't. The choice may say something about the presidential candidate. Or it may not, if you see what I mean. What did the selection of Lyndon Johnson in 1960 tell us except that the Kennedys weren't getting enough sleep? (They didn't really want L.B.J., and were shocked when he accepted...