Word: dozen
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Sooner than later, one group catches my eye. It's a cluster of about a dozen people. They're nodding attentively as a man speaks to them in Spanish...
What's broken in cancer cells is genes, usually genes that control some aspect of cell growth and division. Hundreds of genes play a role in this process, and more than three dozen have been identified as playing a role in cancer. Some are like accelerators, telling cells to grow, grow, grow. Others put the brakes on growth. Some regulate steps in cell division to make sure that DNA is copied correctly from mother to daughter cell. Some play executioner, killing mutant cells in which the copying has gone awry. Cancer is caused by errors in these genes, usually multiple...
...lately, and plenty of places are doing a brisk business providing live peep shows online. I talked to Scott Hirsch, a budding Bob Guccione and the 33-year-old proprietor of DoMeLive.com and the Internet Video Group, its parent company. One of the bigger cybersex sellers, IVG employs three dozen women to, er, interact with men online. They work out of a 22,000-sq.-ft. "cyberbroadcast" facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., with all the facilities, including a gymnasium for its workers. The place cost $1.6 million. No problem, says Hirsch; his business was profitable three months after it opened...
Thanks to successful protection, the Interior Department is proposing to "delist or downlist" some two dozen species on the Endangered and Threatened Species List, including, clockwise, the bald eagle, gray wolf, brown pelican and Aleutian Canada goose. So will the list get shorter? Don't bet on it. Our breakdown of the list...
...much bigger book." All this was a prelude to what may be a monumental showdown this week, as DOJ moves not only to block Windows 98 but also to end what critics have long thought to be Microsoft's predatory and monopolistic practices; as many as a dozen state attorneys general may follow suit. After months of sparring, the real fight is about to begin...