Word: cellularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That worry is turning neighborhoods rich and poor into armed camps. Residents of the stately Garden District along St. Charles Avenue sometimes pack pistols when they visit neighbors' homes for parties. Others act as sentries, carrying cellular phones when they walk their dogs. Rather than allow their children to play in yards, neighbors in one Uptown area banded together to build a walled compound. "Maybe it's like this everywhere, but sometimes I go from my alarm-locked home to my alarm-locked car to my alarmed office," says Bee Fitzpatrick, who runs an import store...
...about her pettiness are legion: the time in Boston she telephoned the management of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to complain that the Ritz- Carlton's room service had put peas in her pasta; the time when, feeling chilly while riding in a limo in Southern California, she used the cellular phone to call her management company in New York, which phoned the limo service, which phoned the driver, who turned the air conditioning down; the time in New York when she and Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal. Battle has a penchant...
...full testosterone fury is as bloodcurdling as any mugger's. When it comes to social carnage, the convenience-store stickup can't compare with a leveraged buyout, trickling-down unemployment, depression, anger, alcoholism, divorce, domestic abuse and addiction. I'd like to see white men with suspenders and cellular phones tested for the greed gene. The genomes of presidential candidates should be a matter of public record...
...wondrously evocative. In a chapter on cancer, for instance, his description of how the cells operate contains this startling analogy: "In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society...
Under the change, the Cellular and development Biology Department, originally included in the biology concentration, will join the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to form the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology...