Word: folds
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...Forum has also erected a Coordinating Committee, which will decide which groups the coalition wants in its fold and which causes it will endorse. The Committee is open to everybody, and there is no power hierarchy—but leaders do still emerge because they simply spend more time there than anyone else, Gould-Wartofsky says...
...team is much younger and smaller right now, and we have a smaller group, and we don’t have the freshmen in the fold yet,” he added. “We have a lot of walk-ons and not many of them are cleared to compete yet. But we have two or three top notch freshmen, but the team is much smaller and younger...
...potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it?as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
...potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it--as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
...lived worms actually regulate several unusual genes to increase life-span. One set of genes triggers the worms' cells to make antioxidants, which fight off the ravages of molecules called free radicals, which can damage DNA. Another set directs the creation of proteins called chaperones; they help other proteins fold into their proper shapes. They also detect and destroy improperly folded proteins that can cause such aging-related ailments as Huntington's disease. Other genes affect the transport of fat around the body--which may also have an effect on aging--and create proteins that kill invading microbes...