Word: bulb
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Things get murkier when researchers look at the BRCA mutations. Hundreds of base pairs may be strung along genes like Christmas-tree lights, but not every blown bulb affects the strand the same way. More than 200 mutations have been identified on the two BRCA genes, and one new study found that while BRCA2 mutations will show up on a test, they may be less likely to lead to disease than mutations on BRCA1 in young women...
...when I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we assumed that "no frills" was the part of college education that toughened you up for the future. A hard mattress, no pillow, a 40-watt bulb, concrete floors, a muddy campus, hobnail boots and highly committed but probably underpaid teachers all contributed to making tuition $180, half a room $29 and meals at Swain Hall $126 for the year. That was the normal road to Phi Beta Kappa. EDWARD RONDTHALER Croton-on-Hudson, New York...
...business in the utility field. "It's not all bad. It's not all good. It's different." When you flip a light switch, you probably couldn't care less where the power was generated, how it was routed or who sends it from the substation to the light bulb. But in the new power game these become "unbundled," discrete businesses. The consulting trade would call it a paradigm shift, because all the rules have changed and the utilities now have to figure out how they are going to survive...
...person or one per team? he asked, squinting his bulb-shaped eyes suspiciously at Sue-Ling...
...egos of students. The sketch begins with the statement that Harvard students "want you to know they're the best. That four-letter word crops up a lot in their conversation..." It also includes the familiar joke about the number of Harvard students it takes to change a light bulb (Answer: One, who holds the bulb while the world revolves around...