Word: 250th
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...does get around. For ten days, it was an endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much...
...protons through the membrane leaves an excess of negative charge on one side of the membrane. That produces a voltage gradient and results in an electrical current flowing through the membrane. In the process, which involves at least five separate steps, each bacteriorhodopsin molecule pumps out a proton every 250th of a second and provides the energy the organism needs to synthesize adenosinetri-phosphate (ATP), the energy-storing molecule common to all living cells...
About 100 past, present, and omnipresent residents of Massachusetts Hall gathered in the Holoyke Center penthouse last night to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the construction of the hall, which is the College's oldest building still standing...