Word: using
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Claire Fraser, his wife and collaborator, left to found a private research firm, called the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1994 he upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome of a living organism, the H. influenzae bacterium (a bug that causes ear and respiratory infections...
...English at Princeton University who is spending this year as a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old bailiwick, has just delivered a lecture called "Harry Potter and This Ever-Changing Medieval World" to an alumni seminar. He praises, among other things, Rowling's clever use of Latin and her "important and rigorous medieval agenda...
...students--failed to meet even one of the state's 27 performance standards. The voucher program, which began in 1995, gave the city's poorest parents what wealthier parents already had: the option of sending their kids elsewhere. Today 60% of the 3,761 kids using vouchers come from families with incomes at or below the poverty line, and 96% of the kids who use vouchers go to sectarian schools like St. Adalbert...
...Sure, we've been known to use Dumbo as a sedative, but most nights ours are the last voices our children hear before they sleep. An acquaintance once boasted that her three kids, including a toddler, put themselves to bed. All she had to do was turn out the lights and lower the volume on each child's TV. That sad image is enough to sustain me until our youngest is an adult, when Santa can do as he pleases...
...jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen will go to Portugal...