Word: junking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MEDICINE/PHYSIOLOGY British-born Richard Roberts, 50, now of New England Biolabs, and Phillip Sharp, 49, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won for their 1977 discovery of "junk DNA." As the cell's master molecule, DNA carries the blueprints needed to make proteins. Roberts and Sharp found that genes -- the subdivisions corresponding to different proteins -- are usually not single sections of DNA, as once believed, but discrete chunks, interrupted by stretches of nonsense DNA that seem to have no function. In protein making, only the pieces of meaningful DNA are copied and then spliced together. The splicing can go awry...
...were really starved. We descended on Quincy Market like a pack--well, a pair--of wild dogs. In case you've never been there, Faneuil Hall is an indoor/outdoor market that houses a veritable cornucopia of food, food, and junk food. A lot of junk food. The most important things to remember, however, are salsa and canolis...
Outstanding students who fill in an innocuous-looking bubble on the SAT application are inundated with piles of brochures and catalogs--the junk mail of the educated world. Further on in the process, they might be recruited, with all the associated perks--"red carpet tour days," "dinners with the dean," large aid packages, and in some cases, full scholarship offers...
Thousands of homeowners rushed the stores, buying water, batteries, plywood, junk food--anything to get them through the storm that might just hit. Few people were taking any chances...
...film does an excellent job in immediately establishing definite, interesting characters. For example, every aspect of Wai-Tung's life screams Yuppie. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a beautiful home, doesn't eat junk food and decides which boxers to wear according to the day of the week. Unfortunately, none of the characters seemed to develop beyond their initial portrayals. The exception was Wai-Tung's father, an endearing old man, whose love for his son is so strong he eventually surprises everyone...