Word: heeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen how much support DeTik can continue to muster. Despite all the welcome and unwelcome attention, Eros seems undaunted. | "If you are afraid," he says, "then don't do anything in this country." A sensible warning no doubt, but one he at least clearly does not intend to heed...
When Harvard Medical School introduces innovations, other institutions take heed. If Harvard takes up the SUNY model, what started in Binghamton could blossom into a successful new design for medical education in the United States--and solve the primary crisis...
...interior, all the way to a master "on" switch positioned deep in the nucleus. Not surprisingly, many oncogenes, including one called ras, the first human cancer gene ever identified, are involved in this type of signaling pathway. But there are other molecules that determine whether the cell should heed these signals. And the small protein produced by MTS1 appears to be among the most important inhibitors of cell division. Last year researchers at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory discovered that a protein they called p16 stifled an enzyme that is a growth promoter. Last week it became clear...
...wary of Guinier, it's the multicultural activists who want to institutionalize their group identities. Whether they want to set up ethnic studies departments or ensure themselves a permanent affirmative-action check-off box of graduate school application, ethnic activists who demand such special treatment from institutions should take heed of Guinier's warnings about entrenching racial divisions and categorizations. Measures like racial gerrymandering, Guinier warns, "may be rigidly essentialist, presumptuously isolating, or politically divisive." Race-based affirmative action and separate ethnic studies departments (Asian American, Latino, etc.) share the same essentialist, presumptuous and divisive potential...
Just then that aeroplane backfired overhead and I reflexively threw my beer into the air and watched it roll frothily down into the Saharan valley. But I payed my brewskie no heed because my eyes were glued heavenward. Holly, Dave and I stood agape, for humankind's wizardry had faltered. The engine of the plane had stopped...