Word: folds
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...Saddam had tailors stitch up 15,000 British and American uniforms so that disguised Iraqi troops could attack Iraqi civilians, allowing Saddam to blame the allies. The enormous antiwar demonstrations in the West prior to the fighting may have emboldened Saddam into thinking the Americans could be made to fold...
...problem on college campuses is two-fold: First, students invoke “free speech” to perpetuate indecency without censure. Second, students invoke “free speech” selectively...
...must compete against thousands of others athletes who are vying for their precious spot on the Harvard roster. In an effort to stand out to admissions committees, therefore, students often turn to fringe sports as a means of getting into college. Sports such as crew have seen a ten-fold increase in high-school participation in the past ten years...
...year Title IX was passed, a total of 29,972 women competed in college sports. In 2001, that number had grown five-fold to 150,916. In high schools today, roughly 2.8 million girls play sports—ten times the number in 1972. These increases clearly indicate that Title IX, an amendment to the Education Act that banned discrimination in education on the basis of sex, has dramatically changed the face of American athletics. However, these advances are under serious threat. A federal commission is proposing changes in the law’s implementation—changes that would...
...proteins for which the genes provide the instructions. Since a typical gene may yield as many as 20,500 different kinds of proteins, scientists are only now figuring out how to begin to figure them out. Researchers don't even know how many proteins there are or how they fold, which means among other things that a whole new kind of machine is needed to study them. The new computers are coming to life. IBM models its newest ones--computers that act like cells and fix themselves wherever they break--after DNA. The quantity of information is so vast...