Word: coatings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...show “Sex and the City,” only to warn her audience to be wary of Hollywood storylines: “In New York, there are not 20 men for every woman, lining up to whisk her off to Paris and buy her a mink coat.” While leaning back in my seat, surrounded by exceptional women (and some valiant young men too), it occurred to me that though daydreaming à la Carrie Bradshaw may not be so realistic in the long run, a woman’s imagination may conjure up possibilities...
...Schveep for you, sir, please?" A street arab of nine or ten was tugging at his coat with one hand and with the other held a broom as tall as she. A patina of filth made her chestnut hair black, and she had no right...
...officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen black IBM Thinkpad T-60 laptop valued at $2,000 and a green and crimson Lehman Brothers backpack valued at $15 that contained a genetics textbook, a silver Cingular LG cell phone, and a white coat. At 10:27 p.m. the laptop and backpack were recovered...
...healthy cells to begin with. Next come the two oldest classes of drugs, which prevent the virus from transforming its genetic material from RNA to DNA. And finally, jumping to the very end of HIV's mission, the protease inhibitor drugs keep the virus from making its final protein coat, which it needs to re-emerge from the infected cell in order to start infecting additional cells...
March 1st is a day of singular grandeur. It is a day that is pressed between the icy breaths of February and the eventual warmth of April. The air is still brisk enough to warrant a jacket but lacks the icy teeth to demand a coat and a scarf. The snow has abandoned its campaign to conquer the world and appears content to defend its strongholds away from the sidewalks and roads where the green happy grass also begins to shake off its winter layers. People seem to be more pleasant around March 1st. I think this is because somehow...