Word: fold
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...existence of DNA; they discovered its structure, which means they unveiled its power as well as its beauty. If you could uncoil a strip of DNA, it would reach 6 ft. in length, a code book written in words of four chemical letters: A, T, G and C. Fold it back up, and it shrinks to trillionths of an inch, small enough to fit in any one of our 100 trillion cells, carrying the recipe for how to make a human being from scratch. The ingredients are the same for everything that lives; we are cousins to sequoias, and slugs...
Although some critics contend that Silber couldnever bring liberals back into the fold, Rooseveltdiscounted any further internal strife that mightresult from his appointment as chair...
...reason for the financial deficit is two-fold, Hopkins stated: 1) contributions from alumni have not yet been received and are not expected until later this season. 2) it is too early in the year for substantial revenues to be realized from the multiple band activities such as concerts and recordings...
...inanity became animate, and caricature met character study. The fun in a Hirschfeld sketch increased after 1945, when his daughter Nina was born. He began concealing her cognomen in and around his portraits of famous men and women--in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown, in a Groucho jacket fold--placing a numeral next to his signature to indicate how many Ninas appeared therein. It was the niftiest Sunday parlor game, a gift from the Shavian Santa who, with the delineation in a thin line, created the joy of seraphic graphic art. --By Richard Corliss...
...agree that the affirmative action program at Michigan, like many other universities, is flawed. The problem is two-fold, though: the ones at the helm of the program think they are leveling the playing field by having pity, ironically treating blackness as an achievement (when for so long it has been treated as a liability), and fellow students and teachers are suspicious of the black students’ intelligence and worthiness of admission...