Word: ear
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LANGUAGE IS LIKE money. It is an acceptable medium used to communicate and conduct business with others. A five dollar bill is useful because it is always accepted and recognized. Standard English is important, not because it is intrinsically better or more pleasing to the ear than slang, but because--like legal tender--it is universally accepted...
Both the retinoblastoma and Duchenne genes were located by comparing DNA strands from healthy and diseased cells. The retinoblastoma team, led by Ophthalmologist Thaddeus Dryja of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, found that there are actually two genes in healthy people that protect against the eye cancer -- probably by ordering production of a protein that prevents cells from multiplying uncontrollably. People born with both of these genes intact can usually sustain damage to one without developing retinoblastoma. But those born with one damaged gene nearly always lose the other and develop the disease...
...have the drug unavailable is a tragedy," said Dr. Gary E. Borodic of the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary...
...thinking about his place in history, more so than he did when he took office. Though Reagan and his wife deny they have ever discussed how arms control could affect his legacy, Nancy may indeed have fulfilled her promise to Andrei Gromyko to whisper "peace" in her husband's ear each night...
...King. He began to sell short stories to men's magazines such as Cavalier and Adam; the checks, he remembers, "always seemed to come just in time to buy antibiotics for the baby's ear infection or to keep the telephone in the apartment for another record-breaking month." One baby later, there was barely enough money for the kids and none at all for the phone. It was disconnected the month King turned in the manuscript of Carrie, a novel about an adolescent with telekinetic powers and a lethal resentment of her high school tormentors. The work was worth...