Word: extender
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...dearly to work on stem cells, officials at WARF are echoing Freire's sentiments. The foundation has licensed the Menlo Park, Calif., biotech firm Geron to commercialize six specific cell types derived from Thomson's five primary stem-cell lines--though it is fighting the company's attempt to extend that license to 12 more derived types...
...metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens to be the lone slab of undiluted Cheap Trick-era rawk. It doesn't extend an olive branch to hip-hop fans with a DJ scratch, or to metal fans with a jackhammer riff , and who cares? You can dance to it or make out to it or, I suspect, execute cheerleading moves to it. It's encouraging that movies like the "American Pies" seem...
...current president, with his instincts for control and the institutions he's creating that are not designed to extend freedom, is a sign that a circle is being completed. It's a revolution, in the classical engineering sense of the word - a process that involves a rotation, that completes a circle and returns to its original place. And there are not many people left here who even talk about it publicly, because they are afraid. We still have to learn how to fight for our rights, and to do that without violence. Because revolutions only bring more misery...
...Even for the non-suicidal insurgent, the allure of arms often trumps the bleak career alternatives of civilian life. From Sierra Leone and Angola to Mozambique and Somalia, many of Africa's Cold War-era guerrilla armies simply mutated into bandit gangs whose only purpose was to protect and extend their business interests...
...Zhang Ziyi, the high-flying ingenue from Crouching Tiger, in a dragon-lady role, and fetching Roselyn Sanchez as a woman of uncertain loyalties. But until a vigorous climax, the action scenes have little punch. The film seems content to rely on the formula that could (small sigh) extend for a few more sequels: Jackie kicks butt; Chris kicks sass...