Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with hereditary diseases, by studying patterns of inheritance in families and chopping up their DNA strands for analysis. With this technique, they have tracked down the gene for cystic fibrosis in the midsection of chromosome 7, the gene for a rare form of colon cancer midway along the long arm of chromosome 5, and the one for familial Alzheimer's disease on the long arm of chromosome...
While Nahigian is building his team around a deep starting rotation, an injury to catcher Aron Allen threatens to break the battery down. Allen has aggravated a shoulder problem in his throwing arm which first surfaced in high school...
Space presents itself as another problem. There is just not enough of it. Intimacy is fine, but unfortunately, in the Kronauer production, the audience tends to feel as if it is too close to be comfortable. Though almost an arm's length from the actors on stage, one never feels as if these are the type of characters you'd like to embrace. If anything, one would tend to stay as far away as possible from these unfriendly hermits...
...past few weeks, then, have shown the deplorable limits of tolerance on this campus. Gay students should be treated the same as any other Harvard student. They should be able to discuss their sexual identity, walk arm-in-arm in public and ask someone of the same sex to dance. If this community of presumably enlightened students cannot overcome the oppressive conventions of society, how will the society at large ever be able to change...
Many of the women have a lifetime of experience to overcome. Rodgers' earliest childhood memory was watching her heroin-addict mother stick a needle in her arm. Until recently, Rodgers was lost in a haze of cocaine smoke and subsisted on leftovers pilfered from a fast-food restaurant. Now she sits in the Mandela House kitchen, which is rich with the smell of baking meat loaf...