Word: decipherer
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Officials say the Soviets got the prime turf, with a view of several sensitive buildings, including the White House, because, when the sites were originally agreed upon, the land was available and microwave communication and its interception were not as sophisticated or as prevalent as they are today. Although the...
DeLillo has a knack for faculty follies. The school is well known for its department of Hitler studies, headed by Jack ("J.A.K.") Gladney, the novel's narrator. Students are also offered courses in popular culture, seminars in car crashes and cereal-box texts, a professor named Alfonse ("Fast Food") Stompanato...
It was not quite that. But in recent months, the virus has served as something of a Rosetta stone in the efforts to decipher the enigmas of AIDS. It has also made possible the development of a test that will detect evidence of the infection in donated blood, an important...
Merrifield's primitive prototype has since been upgraded to computer-controlled models. The technique now synthesizes such complex peptides as ribonuclease, an enzyme needed by cells to decipher the genetic information in DNA. Pharmaceutical companies may soon exploit it to create new drugs, including vaccines and diabetic and heart...
As in Tootsie. Lange spends much of her time on screen--and here that's a lot of time--just staring into the camera. When the manager of the farmers' agency tells her and her husband that they won't be able to get any more loans, she doesn't...