Word: markers
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...tell them I'm in court services." Simpson, like many officers, declines to say whether his background is Catholic or Protestant. When he talks to boys playing football in the street, they ask which team he roots for. Support for the Glasgow teams Rangers or Celtic is a sectarian marker. Most Rangers fans are unionist, and Celtic fans nationalist. Simpson dodges the coded query by saying he supports Liverpool, a team with no such meaning...
...rest of the day, Qubah remained largely quiet as U.S. forces fanned out through the city. At each house, soldiers marked the back of the neck of each male with a number inked in black marker. By the end of the day, most every man in Qubah bore numbers like 600-10 and 730-5, designations for the neighborhood and home they were from according to a grid U.S. troops drew over the village. Lt. Col. Andrew Poppas said the numbering system allowed U.S. troops to tell whether anyone was moving about the village despite a lockdown...
...team including researchers from Harvard Medical School have discovered a genetic marker for schizophrenia, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Molecular Psychology. The data was collected using Whole Genome Association (WGA)—a new technology that allowed the scientists to study all the possible variations of each gene, rather than just one or two at a time. “WGA permits us to examine 500,000 SNPs [genetic variations] across the entire genome in a single test,” said Todd Lencz, the first author of the study. The discovery was a joint...
...ridiculously proficient at three-pointers that many hoops afficianados argue that the line needs to be moved back further, from its current location of 19-ft, 9-in. from the basket to either the international 20-ft., 6-in. foot line or pros' most challenging 23-ft., 9-in. marker. What's more, if you teach your kids to foul in practice, as Braun insists he does, those risks should be greatly diminished...
...Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. "The 'Blessed are the whatevers,' like 'the meek,' and then the reward they will get. So I've made some puzzle pieces here." She passed out construction-paper sheets, each bearing either the name of a virtuous group or its reward, in black marker. "And you've got to find the person who has the other half. What's the first one in the Bible...