Word: fragmentating
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...Hofmann patiently built a copy of the smaller fragment. After he had stuck 13 of the acids together, he joined his synthetic segment to the 104-acid remainder of natural ribonuclease. The reconstituted enzyme proved to have 70% of the activity of the natural substance. Apparently the seven amino acids, Nos. 14 to 20, that had been left out are like the chip collector on a lathe-useful but not essential...
...statements of Leary. Leary conceives all learned patterns of human behavior as games, involving roles, rules, goals, rituals, language, and values. While he, or at least his associates, claim to be playing the "game" of science, one which certainly uses the mind, he says: "The mind is a tiny fragment of the brain-box complex. It is the game-playing fragment--a useful and entertaining tool but quite irrelevant to survival... We over-value the mind--that flimsy collection of learned words and verbal connections; the mind, that system of paranoid delusions with the learned self as center...
...Singer's fragment is good writing, but I would rather see Mosaic publish student work. We can read Singer in Commentary...
...strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated the bacterial cell. Why should not human cells become cancerous when a similar fragment of viral nucleic acid gets into their chromosomes and causes them to reproduce abnormally? By this reasoning, viruses have been called "bits of heredity in search of a chromosome...
...Western Alliance: The great problem in 1963 is whether the alliance will begin to fragment into national nuclear deterrents that are costly and will, he fears, cause political and strategic imbalances...