Word: kit
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...stern as he was, Bob came to embrace a wounded mother and her young son. Kit was 16 when she fell for a tall, strapping 18-year-old named Newt McPherson. They got married on Sept. 12, 1942. The day after the wedding, Kit knew she had made a mistake. She says that one morning when she tried to wake McPherson for work, after he had stayed out drinking the night before, he struck her. She left immediately; the couple broke up within days after the marriage. But Kit was already pregnant. On June 17, 1943, almost nine months...
...Genetic Tool Kit The animals that aerated the Precambrian oceans could have resembled the wormlike something that left its meandering marks on the rock Erwin lugged back from Namibia. More advanced than a flatworm, which was not rigid enough to burrow through sand, this creature would have had a sturdy, fluid-filled body cavity. It would have had musculature capable of strong contractions. It probably had a heart, a well-defined head with an eye for sensing light and, last but not least, a gastrointestinal tract with an opening at each end. What kind of genetic machinery, Erwin wondered...
...forests of Australia. Blowing bubbles of spittle and waving their fat legs in the air, they look, he marvels, virtually identical to their Cambrian cousin Aysheaia, whose evocative portrait appears in the pages of the Burgess Shale. Soon Carroll hopes to answer a pivotal question: Is the genetic tool kit needed to construct a velvet worm smaller than the one the arthropods...
...least one other researcher has repeated Persson and Storm's software dissection and confirmed their conclusions. "I found exactly what everyone else found," says Oregon's Russinovich. SoftRAM 95's main component, he says, is "little more than copies of the sample programs provided in Microsoft's development kit. The differences are cosmetic...
...scheduled hearings in rural Western counties. Environmentalists complained that speakers sympathetic to the law were squeezed out. What Pombo heard in abundance were stories of local landowners who didn't see why they should lose the right to develop their property because an endangered species like the San Joaquin kit fox had made itself at home...