Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conserving water is just as important as saving energy. Only 3% of the world's water is fresh, and 75% of that is locked away in glaciers and the polar ice caps. The scramble for what is left is growing ever more intense, as the water table falls and toxic chemicals make some supplies undrinkable. Saving the precious liquid can be simple: use a water-conserving shower head, which can reduce consumption by more than half. For older-model toilets, put a brick or two in the tank, since they use 7 gal. of water per flush. Better yet, install...
...Crimson (5-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy) cruised to its fifth straight victory with an easy 6-0 win over the Bowdoin Polar Bears Saturday afternoon in Bright Center...
Against the weaker Polar Bears, the Crimson (2-0 overall) was able to give JV players a chance to earn varsity letters. Paula Rand, Kathy Shergalis and Lesley Chang--who suffered Harvard's only setback--all moved up to the big-time...
...assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite do the job. A lot of fictional heroes with turned-up rain-coat collars must be worrying about their pensions...
...procedure, reported last week at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, is based on analysis of the "first polar body," a small packet of chromosomes sloughed off from the human egg during cell division. First the researchers remove several eggs from a woman's ovaries. Next the first polar body is detached, and a new genetic test called ! polymerase chain reaction is employed to analyze the chromosomes, which are complementary to those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known...