Word: dust
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Many psychoactive drugs--including opiates, the Valium-type compounds and angel dust--mimic the action of neurotransmitters by binding to particular receptors and influencing the neuron's firing. Pharmacologists have acquired the tools to screen new drugs quickly, testing their affinity for particular receptors by cloning, or duplicating, the receptors and then designing molecules that bind to them. So refined are the new techniques that scientists now know of 14 different receptors for serotonin, the ubiquitous chemical messenger that plays a critical role in sleep, mood, depression and anxiety. They have also discerned five different receptor subtypes for dopamine...
Another area where Harvard bit the dust was faculty resources, which counted for 20 percent, based on such factors as student-faculty ratio, faculty doctoral degrees, percent of part-time faculty, average salary and class size (excluding sections). We were ranked 11th; Yale and Princeton were 6th and 7th, with Caltech taking the top spot. You would think that with Harvard's "best in the world" policy of hiring faculty, we could do better than a measly 11th. Then again, U.S. News did not include faculty name recognition as a category...
...METAPHORS] "[Progress] takes teamwork...It's three yards and a cloud of dust...
...parents taught me to put my trust in God, not government, and never confuse the two." Self-reliance was bred in the bone. His family, his neighbors, his whole thirsty town of Russell, Kansas, lived one day at a time through the 1930s, when little would grow, when the dust filmed the windows and smothered the crops, when some farmers slaughtered their cattle and then killed themselves rather than face the shame of bankruptcy. They knew about making do with what they had and not complaining about it. "There are doers, and there are stewers," his father used...
...gooders of her sort should "butt out" of business affairs that don't concern them. But as I interpreted what he was saying--with someone like Rodgers you sort of have to read between the blusters--he is, in fact, cooperating with two organizations that responded to the dust-up by offering to help him find a qualified woman for his board. "Always be particularly polite to nuns," one little boy I know was told, "because in the end they're going to win anyway, and you're just going to look foolish...