Word: insectes
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...more seriously everyone else will take him. This is why I take every opportunity to publicly guffaw in the face of Conservative Party Leader William Hague. This just reassures the public that indeed, the smarter man is running the government. It also makes Hague seem like a laughable little insect, instead of a rather devastating parliamentarian...
...study all the proteins? For one thing, there are too many--50,000 to 2 million, depending how you count. For another, most of those millions of proteins are just variations on a handful of themes. Proteins with similar functions--be they in insect, worm or man--often share structural characteristics that are reflected in the genes that encode them. Structural biologist Stephen Burley of Rockefeller University estimates that the maximum number of distinct shapes may be as few as 5,000. The NIGMS hopes to construct a lexicon of shapes--barrels, doughnuts, globular spheres, molecular zippers...
...drugs used to prevent malaria don't always work. So it's important when traveling to areas where these diseases are endemic (you can learn them from the CDC website) to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants, go inside at dusk and spray insect repellent on exposed skin...
...This scenario seems destined to be re-enacted on a much larger scale. The predicted effects of greenhouse gases on the atmosphere include climate changes that will cause more severe typhoons, hurricanes and floods, plus the bleaching of coral reefs, the melting of polar ice caps, an increase in insect-borne tropical diseases and much, much more...
Sandra says she will eventually retire and will probably settle in Hawaii with Don then. That would suit Don, who mulls an eventual return to hands-on insect study. Who knows? There may still be a nameless moth somewhere that will one day join the list of those bearing Sandra's name. --Reported by Anne Moffett/Alexandria...