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...them over with that $5.63 left on your BoardPlus. 7) Remember watching that movie about Helen Keller when you were in grade school? Think back to the lessons of Annie Sullivan and use sign language (don’t lie, you still know how to sign the alphabet) to communicate to passersby. 8) Just walk out. The proctors are too old to see you anyway. 9) Use your own blood to write a note on a paper airplane. Launch the airplane out the window. 10) Catch an unsuspecting pigeon, attach a rolled up note to its leg and tell...
...Texas city home to a famous standoff 5 Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet 10 Each 14 Modern Persia 15 Home of Caesar’s Palace 16 Need for plugging in a computer 17 *Golfer Woods actually not winning a tournament? 19 202 in Roman numerals 20 Power 21 ___ Kosh 23 Simple sneaker 24 Setting for some of “A Winter’s Tale” 28 Finale 29 George W.’s toilet? 34 “American ___” (popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis...
...illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet “A,” she continually writes the letter “A” because it is only letter of the alphabet that she knows.Hester is viewed largely as a burden to society because her quest for social advancement is undermined by her tendency to look for love in all the wrong places. The actors playing her five children also double as the five adults in Hester’s life that used...
What causes changes in both the dark matter and the genes themselves as one species evolves into another is random mutation, in which individual base pairs--the "letters" of the genetic alphabet--are flipped around like a typographical error. These changes stem from errors that occur during sexual reproduction, as DNA is copied and recombined. Sometimes long strings of letters are duplicated, creating multiple copies in the offspring. Sometimes they're deleted altogether or even picked up, turned around and reinserted backward. A group led by geneticist Stephen Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has identified...
...such Proustian moments. Sales are booming: Groovy Candies' have risen from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull toys. They're also experiencing a surge in demand for best sellers from the 1940s like Slinkys, Nok Hockey and Uncle Wiggily. "The pendulum has swung back to these classic playthings," says Ken Moe, managing director of Back to Basics...