Word: blueprint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...complex’s designers, Melissa DelVecchio of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The Everett Street Garage won’t be the only building bulldozed in the project. The Wyeth Hall dorm will be demolished to make room for the new kid on the Mass Ave. block. The blueprint, unveiled last night at a Pound Hall information session, includes large windows and open spaces—meant to bring light in from outside, DelVecchio said. The Law School campus already boasts several architectural landmarks. H. H. Richardson, a leader of the Romanesque Revival movement, designed Austin Hall in the early...
...What the scientists told Allen was that they really wanted a virtual map for the genes that turn on and off in the brain, akin to the blueprint of the entire human genome that, at that time, was nearing completion. So in 2003, the same year that the Human Genome Project (HGP) was finished, Allen pitched in $41 million and launched the Allen Brain Atlas, an ambitious - and altruistic - indexing of the entire genome of the mouse brain that would be available, free of charge, to researchers on the Web. Why mice? It's impossible to get the live samples...
Virtually everyone on Ward 57 had some phantom limb pain. Its cause remained as mysterious as it had been when a Civil War doctor coined the term to identify the complaints of soldiers whose injured limbs had been sawed off. Some experts believe the brain has a blueprint of body parts that persists even if they've been cut off. According to one theory, when the brain sends signals and receives no feedback, it bombards the missing limb with more signals. That aggravates the swollen nerves that once served it, inducing pain...
...feature of the Swiss banking scene was deliberately left off the blueprint: Switzerland's increasingly burdensome taxes. Under pressure from the European Union, which was worried that many of its residents were stashing money in Swiss accounts merely to evade taxes, Switzerland last year began phasing in a 15% withholding tax on personal interest income for E.U. citizens (the rate rises to 35% in 2011). Singapore, meanwhile, was lowering taxes. Nonresidents who park money in Singapore banks pay no taxes if that money is earned outside Singapore, and investment gains earned in the city-state (from stocks, for example...
...Collins' trailblazing work identifying genetic defects that predispose to cystic fibrosis and other diseases led to his succeeding double-helix discoverer James Watson as head of a 2,400-scientist, multination project to map all 3.1 billion biochemical letters that constitute the human blueprint. In 2000, Bill Clinton honored Collins and his private-sector competitor Craig Venter in the White House, crediting their complementary genome work with uncovering "the language in which God created life." (See pictures of America's pastor Billy Graham...