Word: bench
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Vertex scientists solved the structure in 1992 (see picture below) and began to explore several potential sites for artificial blockage, using supercomputers to suggest possible "keys" for the HIV "lock." In practice, the computer's guess is often far from perfect, but computers can help bench-top scientists refine their search for the molecule with the perfect...
...last blue and white float drives out of sight, and the loyal crowd disperses. The park remains incredibly busy, though, and a youth attracts a number of parade-goers by drumming on a plastic can. Eventually, he hands the sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention on the cop's approach...
...less wealthy drunk sits down on a bench by the fountain. He yells "Hey!" at each female passerby and then looks away quickly, pretending not to have said anything. He and a guy on the bench with him, a sober 30-year-old with a thick cast on his arm, are both getting quite a kick out of this routine...
...portly man wearing no shirt interrupts the dialogue as he nears. Behind the bench, he picks through a trashcan with his wooden cane. He swats at the trash using the cane, knocking pieces along the ground with his one-handed golf swing...
...Wednesday, Federal District Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out Paula Corbin Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against President Clinton. Wright, once Professor Clinton's law student, is a Republican judge appointed to the Federal bench by former president Bush. She ruled that Jones' case lacked the tangible evidence of sexual harassment and emotional distress needed to justify a trial against the President. As a result of this ruling, Jones' brief encounter with fame seems to have come to an end. She will now disappear from the political scene just as quickly as Monica S. Lewinsky burst onto...