Word: markers
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...professor has been right before, and his Ark fixation stems from his greatest coup. In the 1980s Parfitt lived with a Southern African clan called the Lemba, who claimed to be a lost tribe of Israel. Colleagues laughed at him for backing the claim; in 1999, a genetic marker specific to descendents of Judaism's Temple priests (cohens) was found to appear as frequently among the Lemba's priestly cast as in Jews named Cohen. The Lemba - and Parfitt - made global news...
...recent study, Frank and his colleagues discovered a marker for the most fertile and tenacious cells in melanoma tumors...
...whiteboard to trade shares of the al-Basra Bank, and then a moment later pull back. A female trader has just walked along the front of the room in elegant black boots and gold necklaces, chatting into her cell phone, pausing momentarily to scribble numbers in black marker on the wall...
...story that had turned darker than anyone had bargained for, and it added to the bitterness against Mitzi. When she walked into her office the day after the suicide, Mitzi found a poster of Lubetkin propped up on her couch, and the words "Got the Message" scrawled in Magic Marker on her wall. Lubetkin's girlfriend had left...
...grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-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 possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...