Word: checker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checker was approached yesterday morning atthe entrance to Lamont from Pusey Library...
...genes associated with a form of early onset colon cancer known to afflict particular families. These genes are carried by as many as 1 in every 200 Americans, making them the most common cause of cancer susceptibility yet discovered. In their normal form, these biological versions of computerized spelling checkers produce proteins that scoot along strands of replicating DNA, searching for tiny typos. When a protein finds an error in one of the words spelled out by DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet, it flashes an alarm. A person born with only one good copy of any of these genes...
Perhaps it is glory-hungry house administrators who turn our tutors into IM-animals. "No way," says the checker at the Q-RAC desk. "There is absolutely no connection. If anything the tutors who come here are either underfed or overweight...
...almost breaking her coxis, FM's Harvard Under Glass team got a bit cranky about New England weather, that off-again, on-again tease. HUG was tempted to transfer somewhere permanently warm and sunny and Spanish-speaking but was convinced not to do so by the dining hall checker. Sensing in this woman profound wisdom and deep understanding, HUG passed on the Thai dinner, pulled a chair up to the checker's desk and listened intently as this venerable oracle spilled truth after truth...
...Checker-woman: It won't do any good, dear. You can run away from the snow but you can't run away from yourself...