Word: coded
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Principal Harris makes a funny observation, but a shrewd one, about why her well-ordered Catholic school works. "We provide the same thing a gang provides: family, code, color, belonging and activity." And her gang is growing. Enrollment at St. Adalbert's increased by 41 special students this year, to 413, thanks to the most closely watched educational experiment in the country. This month Cleveland becomes the first city in the nation to allow children from poor homes to attend private schools, including religious schools, using government money to cover most or all of the tuition. State-financed school-choice...
...Dress Code Personified...
...undergraduates' address. While the president listened intently to all non-student speeches, she ignored [Megan L.] Peimer '97 and [Corinne E.] Funk '97 as they spoke, instead reading the contents of a folder she carried on-stage with her, observers said." Readers wondered if "unnamed observers" was really code for "Crimson reporter trying to stir up trouble...
Developing successful drug treatments for these disorders depends not only on the discovery of the appropriate disease gene but also on the identification of the protein that it controls. Each human gene consists of a coded chemical "message" that directs the cell to produce a particular protein necessary either for body structure or for a metabolic process. After researchers have zeroed in on a gene and learned its code sequence, they are able to identify its protein and eventually discover the larger role this protein plays in the body...
Some neurotransmitters induce other neurons to fire; others dampen neuron activity. In either case, once the chemical locks on to the receptor, it sets in motion a cascade of chemical events in the receiving cell. This ongoing dance of neurotransmitters and receptors is the intricate code that brain cells use to communicate with one another...