Word: choses
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...summer project," a vacation-time job which ideally takes the Volunteer away from the routine of his regular assignment, often to more informal duties, and gives him a chance to see different aspects of the country he is working in. This summer Volunteers in the Ivory Coast chose projects ranging from running a huge day camp for children in Abidjan to building a cultural center in a small town in the North...
Harry involuntarily chose spying; he had been court-martialled for insubordination and faced either military prison or the secret service. Bored with his daily surveillance assignments, Harry amuses himself by playing practical jokes on his fellow spies and by lightheartedly ignoring his instructions. But he gets better results when he does things...
...students offered advanced placement, 113 -- or about 54 per cent -- turned it down. Last year, only 41 per cent of the students offered the chance to skip a year chose...
Retreat from Embarrassment. Faced finally with a choice between inglorious victory and unpalatable defeat, Ted Kennedy went all the way to the brink -and chose defeat. Though virtually none of his colleagues knew of his decision in advance, he notified President Johnson of his switch the night before the Senate showdown. He also tipped off Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose forces had become reasonably confident that they could scuttle Morrissey's nomination. After crossing the Senate floor to give Teddy an avuncular handclasp, old Ev rumbled: "It takes something for a young man to subdue his pride. It doesn...
With Stand-ins. To check and expand on these hypotheses, Lwoff chose to work with single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, because they have a single chromosome (whereas man has 46). As stand-ins for genes he chose viruses that infect bacteria (bacterio-phages), because their cores consist of nucleic acid. What actually happens Lwoff found, is not as simple as had been thought. The viral nucleic acid, in effect masquerading as a gene, might do one of two things after invading a bacterium: 1) stimulate the bacterial cell to produce hundreds of copies of the virus particle, and destroy...