Word: celling
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Almost two years after Raúl Castro took over for his ailing brother Fidel, Cuba is launching a host of economic reforms. First came the right of ordinary Cubans to own cell phones, then to buy foreign electronics, rent cars and stay in tourist hotels. Now some private farmers can till their own land. A few questions about what it all means...
Official caught smuggling 3,000 cell phones in his limo...
...some smokers and former smokers more susceptible than others to cancer. The two variants - or differences in a single nucleotide - exist in about 34% of the population and occur in genes in the same region of the long arm of chromosome 15. Those genes code for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cell-surface proteins that selectively bind to nicotine molecules. Once nicotine attaches to these receptors, a series of changes in the cells is triggered: in the lungs, for example, cells are pushed into rapid, uncontrolled growth, which promotes the growth of new feeder blood vessels, creating, in turn, a particularly hospitable...
...technological innovation. The tournament uses manual, not electronic, scoreboards, while simultaneously running a website offering up-to-the-second updates. Sandwiches at the venue cost no more than $2.50, even as tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar, and automatic suction systems designed to remove surface water from the greens...
...beams line the walls of a married couple’s farmhouse in the Adams House Drama Society’s production of Harold Pinter’s “Old Times.†These white beams seem more and more like the bars of a jail cell as the play progresses, trapping the characters in the nightmares that are their own lives. Perception becomes reality as past and present blend together in a battle of words and memories. Pinter’s play provides complicated source material, and this production—executive produced by Simon...