Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caltech scientists are working with a "sequencing" machine that needs as little as ten picomoles (less than a millionth of a gram) of pure IF to determine the composition and sequence of the IF molecule's amino acid chain, which consists of about 150 links. Explains Molecular Geneticist Leroy Hood: "It's like having pearls of different colors on a string and clipping them off one by one and identifying the color of each...
...emerged from the panel truck outside the Dominican embassy in Bogota, which has served as a venue for negotiations between the Colombian government and the terrorists. "It is our final word! We are holding firm; our mission is to win or die!" Then the guerrilla, wearing jeans and a hood over her face, flashed a V-for-victory sign at the police and press clustered outside the embassy. With a defiant turn of heel, she strode back into the building, where a band of terrorists calling themselves the M-19 Group has been holding more than 20 ambassadors and other...
...Within the formula, a thousand variations flourish. Weathercasters differ about the measure of dignity the occasion calls for. Before Willard Scott moved to NBC's Today Show, he be came a Washington, D.C., fixture by giving his WRC-TV weathercast in kilts, Robin Hood costumes or George Washington getups. Audiences in Savannah have had a weather reporter who talked to a seagull; those in Cleveland have enjoyed one who blew hot licks on his trumpet between temperature recitations. Station KDBC-TV in El Paso has a Lhasa Apso named Puffy Little Cloud who gives a forecast by appearing...
...fascinated Sammy. The lights stretched to a ring of mountains that disappeared in the twilight. Antennas. On the boulevard, red taillights winked at him. Sammy took off his shades and looked at the stars. White headlights blinked at him. He leaned against the car, drumming his fingers on the hood...
...hood popped up in Iowa and Rick missed a telephone pole by the page of a Gutenberg bible. Sammy sat up. Everything was fine, but the Dodge was in a ditch. A patrol car came by and pulled them back to the road. You have any controlled substances, any firearms? No, said Rick. You're no fun, said the patrolman, climbing into his car and leading the way through the corn fields...