Word: marker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relies on enzymes that slice DNA in distinctive patterns; families with a history of a genetic disease will tend to have similar configurations, permitting scientists to zero in on the likeliest site of the offending gene. In recent weeks biologists have announced the discovery of RFLP distinctive patterns, or "markers," for cystic fibrosis, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans; cardiovascular disease susceptibility; polycystic kidney disease; and muscular dystrophy. Says Manuel Buchwald of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of the co-discovers of the cystic fibrosis marker, "It's the first handle we have on the disease...
...Caravaggio," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's big show this winter, may come to be remembered as a marker in the history of exhibitions. Not even the Met, this time, could get the loan of his greatest work. Owners and curators are getting more conservative, especially in Italy, and the days when uniquely important works of art could be flown around the world like greeting cards, even for scholarly purposes, are fading...
...black marker protruding a couple feet out of the ice near the Boston side of the river might have been what the student saw, according to Murray...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a ten page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possesed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...about the old man who used to blow a bugle whenever the Peckinpaugh passed, or the one about the elderly woman who still stands at her kitchen window and waves. His first mate, Stewart Gunnlaugsson, chimes in with stories of fogs that can blot out the canal's marker buoys and make navigation impossible and lock keepers who bring the Peckinpaugh's crew up to date on the news as they pass through. "Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake and swings north into the Oswego River...