Word: originally
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...monkeys or chimpanzees) to humans, according to a report published last week in Nature. Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and one of the study's authors, says a careful genetic analysis of the sample's DNA pushes the putative origin of the AIDS epidemic back at least a decade, to the early '50s or even...
...strong sense of journalistic responsibility--to pay the cryobank a visit. But the rigors of exam period get the better of me, so early on Tuesday afternoon I give the sperm bank a call, looking for a concession that clients can match up samples with their college of origin. I leave a long message with the receptionist--no one with the information I'm looking for is available--but as of press time, my call still hasn't been returned...
...principal source of investment capital in the region. Seoul is looking desperately to Tokyo to roll over its credit. But Japanese banks, burdened with a quarter-trillion dollars of bad domestic debt, cannot easily risk more money in the South Korean sinkhole. Japan is also the origin of the very economic model that is causing the crisis. No one really knows, but many moneymen fear that Japan's own financial system could be as dangerously debt-ridden as South Korea's. The global economic network should be able to withstand even a wholesale default in Seoul, but failure in Japan...
Army Secrecy Syndrome The transcript of an Army Ethics Committee debate about a questionable vaccine came to light yesterday. Could we have found the origin of Gulf War Syndrome...
...interested in plants and evolution before college, when I was bumming around, hiking and reading," Donoghue says. "I read Darwin's Origin--that really influenced me. I'd take a walk in the woods, and there'd be so many things. I guess what interested me is, why this diversity? Why so many different kinds of plants...