Word: clue
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...They figured out which pieces of the envelope the antibodies latch onto, and that’s a clue for designing something synthetic that you could give to people to stimulate the development of these antibodies,” he said...
...half the open interest on the Nikkei futures, along with 85% of the Japanese bond contract that he traded. Those were staggeringly large positions. But those to whom he reported, who made more money and had more responsibility at the bank - his "superiors," in other words - had nary a clue, because young Nick had for a time devised a way to hide his trades from them. More than $1 billion in the hole, and with no hope of digging his way out, he skipped off to a Malaysia beach resort with his wife to sip umbrella drinks...
...most primal of those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect...
...most primal of those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect...