Word: functions
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...Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty organization in Vienna would not comment on whether the agency was aware of reports alleging that some of Pakistan's devices had failed. "We are still awaiting further information and analyzing the data we have already received," Carlos Hernandez of the CTBT told TIME. "Our function is to simply document when and where nuclear test explosions occur, and to measure their size." Pakistan has refused to comment on questions concerning unexploded devices. But you might want to think twice about taking a job as a janitor at Pakistan's Chagai nuclear test site right...
...want to have a fairly traditional marriage, but we're not sure which country to do it in--India or here," Bhattacharya says. "We'll most likely have a function in both places...
...protesters had been arrested, and protests disbanded as it became clear that Washington would continue to function...
...Cambridge resident reported that since being introduced to Stieg Falk, a 45 year-old white male, at a social function a couple of years ago, he has coming back to her home and asking question about her family. She says she and other residents are in fear...
Since every gene holds the recipe for a vital protein, corrupt genes mean corrupt proteins: too much of one protein, too little of another, or a misshapen protein that doesn't function properly. The new generation of cancer drugs takes aim at these defective proteins, blocking them, disrupting them in myriad ways. Unlike old-fashioned chemotherapy drugs, the new substances don't poison the tumor--an approach that usually causes collateral damage to healthy cells. Instead, they aim to halt the processes that make a cancer cell act like a cancer cell in the first place...