Word: instruct
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...Some of these therapies prevent a class of chemicals called growth factors from reaching a tumor, blocking signals that would otherwise instruct the cell to grow out of control. Others tip the delicate balance that every cell maintains between life and death, driving cancerous cells to self-destruct. Still others block enzymes that cancer cells use to chew openings in normal tissues and give themselves room to expand. And, most famously, the class of compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson...
...public-service sector, the demand for teachers to instruct the young and for nurses to treat the old remains just as hot. At the University of Delaware, a recent job fair lured recruiters from 150 school districts across the U.S., who raced through 3,000 interviews in a single day. Small wonder that some 95% of Delaware's approximately 500 graduating teachers have landed jobs. The rest are merely avoiding them...
...briskly paced half-hour on the treadmills at their health club, Nina Crugnola, 80, and her husband Tony, 79, are a little flushed. So before heading off for phase two of their workout--the weight machines--they take a moment to wipe away the sweat, adjust their headsets and instruct a fellow septuagenarian on how to use a hip abductor. "A year ago, I didn't think I'd ever learn how to work these machines, let alone stay on the treadmill without falling off," says Nina. "But I've had osteoporosis, he's had a blocked ventricle...
...scripture that Muhammad brought to the Arabs, venerates the great prophets of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It speaks of Solomon's "great place of prayer" in Jerusalem, which the first Muslims called City of the Temple. Only after the Jews of Medina rejected Muhammad did he switch orientation and instruct his adherents to pray facing Mecca, whose ancient shrine, the Kabah, was thought by locals to have been built by Abraham and his son Ishmael, the father of the Arabs...
Nonzee has had a pretty damaged life too. His parents abandoned him, and he was raised by grandparents. He recalls "crying in the corner at parties when all the other children had parents come and pick them up." His mother rematerialized when he was 17, only to instruct him to become an engineer. He was horrified. "She turns up unannounced and expects me to listen to her. I hated her at that moment and told her I felt nothing...