Word: marker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glancing at his watch, the leader signaled to the others, and the trio, using their flippers to rise, promptly began their ascent by following a cable that led up to the Virazon. Reaching a white marker cylinder at the 20-ft. depth, they stopped, treading water for three minutes, before rising again to a second marker, at the 10-ft. level. There they waited for eleven minutes, passing the time by penciling messages to each other on a roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually...
...face had a cartoon-like directness: big mustache, Magic Marker eyebrows, oversize cigar. Yet few TV entertainers were a more intriguing set of contradictions than Ernie Kovacs. A boisterous cutup who relished tacky props and low-down slapstick, yet a closet highbrow who orchestrated comedy to Bartok and Beethoven. A talk-show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David...
...landmark Bakke case, the U.S. Supreme Court has tacked back and forth unpredictably on the issue of affirmative action, prompting Reagan Administration lawyers and liberal civil rights activists alike to claim that the results really favored them. Last week, in what may prove to be a decisive course marker, the court struck down by a 5-4 vote a Michigan school-district plan that sought to protect minority hiring gains by laying off white teachers ahead of blacks with less seniority. It was a decision with a bit of something for everyone...
...children are asked to draw pictures of themselves. Each selects a Magic Marker. Michael chooses black. He draws a small circle at the top of the paper, then, unsatisfied, flips the sheet over and begins to draw a small stick figure. The two young women suggest that the children lay their heads directly on the paper; Betsy will draw an outline of their heads, and the children may fill in the features. Carmen and Elena respond at once and begin to work. Ralphy balks and starts to play elsewhere. He is taken out of the room by Lori...
...latest batch of DNA markers will serve as important stepping-stones to the isolation of genes. But RFLPs can only approximate the gene's position; biologists must progressively snip away the intervening fragments before they can fish out the gene and begin manipulating it. At least one marker, however, may be immediately useful. John Baxter of California Biotechnology, the firm where the heart-disease markers were found, believes the RFLP could help in alerting people to their tendency in time to change their behavior. Warns Baxter: "If you have this marker, it's equivalent to having blood pressure...