Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...work within any system, so they protest and expect what they demand to be handed to them on a silver platter. The colleges are in a sad state when they do not expel students who burn everything from flags to buildings, strike the classes and disrupt the learning process...
...Khorana. 47, reported that it had achieved the first artificial synthesis of a gene-the basic unit of heredity in the nuclei of all cells. Although genetic material has been made in the laboratory before, scientists have always had to use at least some natural cellular material in the process. The Wisconsin achievement marks the first time that a single gene has been created entirely out of off-the-shelf chemicals...
...model, Khorana picked a relatively simple gene from the common yeast cell; its nucleotide sequence is only 77 steps long. But those 77 steps made the building process immensely complex. Adding one lab-made nucleotide at a time in complex chemical processes, Khorana's team patiently assembled small, single-stranded segments of the 77-step chain. After each step forward, the scientists had to backtrack: every new combination had to be unraveled in order to check that the nucleotides were still in the right sequence and had not been damaged by chemical side effects. When enough strands had been...
...ghetto revolts which began in the summer of 1965 and the ensuing articulation of black nationalist sentiment-by former civil rights activists in many instances- both revealed and spurred the shift in the Movement to a more militant position. Their faith in the democratic process worn away by the slow process of change, black people soon discovered that anger and threats of violence could produce more results than soft-spoken appeals to white conscience. It was an important lesson, one which black students on white college campuses effectively utilized...
Soon after students began demanding Black Studies programs, critics began saying that a degree in Afro-American Studies has no worth, that it could serve no "function" in society. These critics said that black students were wasting their time, or worse yet, "copping out" of the educational process by majoring in Black Studies...