Word: linearly
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...idea of the genome as a book--longer than 800 Bibles yet so small that there are trillions of copies inside each one of us--is not even a metaphor. It is literally true. A book is a piece of digital information, written in linear, one-dimensional and one-directional form and defined by a code that transliterates a small alphabet of signs into a large lexicon of meanings through the order of their groupings. So is a genome...
Around midnight, as the council recessed to await clarification on parts of the Linear Park downzoning petition in North Cambridge--Galluccio's home neighborhood--Decker and Reeves suddenly switched allegiances again...
After returning to council business in which the Linear Park petition was passed, another recess was called at 12:50 a.m. before the final mayoral vote...
...Reeves' Valentine's Day soon turned sour. In the next few hours, as the council hammered out a final draft of a Linear Park down-zoning ordinance in North Cambridge, Galluccio, an Independent, persuaded CCA councillors Braude and Davis and Independents Maher and Sullivan to elect him mayor...
Though the council did pass important ordinances such as the Larkin and Linear Park petitions while the mayor's race loomed in the background, only with the creation of the committees can the council get to work...