Word: circularity
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...stepped the gene splicers from Genentech, who managed to isolate the gene in the virus that orders up the production of VP3. A molecular fragment containing these instructions was then spliced into a plasmid, or small circular collection of DNA, taken from an E. coli bacterium. Then the plasmid and its "recombined" DNA were inserted back into E. coli. Not only did the recipient bacteria begin cranking out VP3, but all their offspring reproduced the protein as well...
Only a block from the site of the shelling on the beach, construction workers were back on the job building a 14-story luxury apartment house. All of Beirut's six universities remained open. At the Commodore Hotel's famed circular bar, bankers, businessmen, armed security guards, militiamen, spies and a few tourists were talking about land values. Indeed all over Beirut, the wheeling and dealing for which the city is celebrated had resumed. With land scarce and money plentiful because hardly anyone pays taxes, the Beirutis continue to invest heavily in property that has risen astronomically...
...yard where the stonework is done has a machine shop and "banking shop." First, four apprentices cut ten-ton blocks of Indiana limestone into manageable pieces with a frame saw two stories high. The resulting slabs are sliced into smaller pieces, called stones, with circular saws that have diamond cutting edges. Then all the stones go to the banking shop, where apprentices, working at waist-high tables, shape them into basic cathedral building blocks (ashlars), cornerstones (quoins) and structural supports (pier stones...
...truck, a parking lot, part of a four-lane road and much of a municipal swimming pool-into a sinkhole. That geological oddity resulted when underground limestone caverns, which are usually filled and strengthened by water, were gradually drained during a severe drought. The caverns collapsed, and a circular hole 340 ft. across and 100 ft. deep opened up in the middle of a busy neighborhood...
...within 500 feet of their target on the other side. You can better picture this accuracy if you think of throwing a dart across a football field and having it land within a millimeter of its target. With the Trident I, II, and the MX missiles Draper will reduce Circular Error Probability (CEP) to 300 feet. For the purposes of missile accuracy, this amounts to what the Real Paper described as the ability to "land a warhead in stall three of the men's room at the Kremlin." Clearly Draper Lab is very skillful at what it does...