Word: luring
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...says baring your toes to the elements "is no big deal." Kathryn Smith, who sells shoes in New York, says summer footwear is selling way past the traditional season, and attributes the trend "partially to the extreme-sports craze--it's part of the uniform for these kids." Another lure may be TV shows like Ally McBeal, where the stars bare lots of skin even on cold Boston nights. (Never mind that the show is usually shot in sunny Southern California...
...some students will be staying put. For them, the lure of travel and relaxation can't compete with the chance to spend a week at Harvard free of papers, tests and other obligations...
...would take the stars and the moon to lure Suzanne Suzuki, a quality engineer at Agilent Technologies electronics and communications company, away from her job. Agilent allows Suzuki, 45, to share her workspace every day with Barbara, a one-year-old golden retriever she is training as an assistance dog for the disabled. In the workplace, Barbara is exposed to being around all kinds of people, office chatter and noise. She attends meetings with Suzuki, accompanies her to the copy machine and visits the employee cafeteria--all the while learning to remain calm, focused and able to handle a variety...
...compound, called T-20, blocks the final structural contortion from taking place. For this reason it and a second candidate, T-1249, are known as fusion inhibitors. Progenics has been testing a different type of entry inhibitor, a molecular decoy for CD4 whose job is to find, bind and lure HIV away from the real CD4 cells...
...drop this pretense of gender equity, shall we? Because the other problem with "Temptation" is that for all its attempts at balance, its premise - the lure of instant sex amid acres of comely anonymous flesh - is, at risk of overgeneralizing, pretty much a male fantasy. (I'd love to know how many women were present at the pitch meeting.) And one of the few entertaining moments came when the male halves of the couples failed to get that. Allowed to banish whichever of the Mr. Sluts seemed to be the biggest threat, they decided to purge a buff...