Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel." An original creation of Weinstein and Yee, the play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development of the story. One character frequently delivers a revelation or reminiscence to another in a single, unbroken block of text. This can make for unusually slow theatrical pacing...
According to Cantor, his team is trying to develop inhibiting peptides which can block the nefarious activities of osteopontin--a protein secreted by tumors...
About eight years ago, the researchers discovered the gene that cancer cells use to make osteopontin. This advance will help them synthesize the proper peptide to block the osteopontin produced by tumors, Cantor says...
...search for the perfect peptide is complicated by the fact that it must not block the activities of the type of osteopontin produced by immune cells. Cantor says additional snags are that the peptide must not be biologically harmful and must be tested on laboratory animals before human trials...
Norris Square sits in the middle of a graveyard of shuttered factories, crumbling houses and a thriving drug market, and yet this one city block--a park surrounded by houses, churches and community centers--has looked better every year for a decade. Parents once kept children inside because dealers controlled the park, which was filled with needles, condoms, broken glass and knee-high weeds. Today the park is neatly landscaped and filled with moms pushing strollers and children playing on new equipment...