Word: historicization
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Last week, on the 10th floor of the massive Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., the still unidentified child assumed a historic role. In the first federally approved use of gene therapy, a team of doctors introduced into her bloodstream some 1 billion cells...
In a historic experiment at the National Institutes of Health, a four-year-old girl is given new genes that could help supply the enzyme she needs to live.
There doesn't seem to be much danger of that in Tallahassee, where a common word to describe the importance of winning the lab is "historic."
So far, so good. Since the morning Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops storming into Kuwait, the Soviet Union has been cooperating with the West in opposing him. Moscow voted yes four times in the United Nations to condemn Iraq and impose stiff sanctions. Soviet diplomats have repeatedly urged Iraq to...
After all the gloomy forecasts, all the frenzied selling of the first few days, the mood of the world's financial markets brightened a bit last week -- from near hysteria to mere anxiety. War could still erupt in the Persian Gulf; oil prices could remain relatively high. Yet for the...