Word: markers
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Because we have tethered a dry erase marker to our bathroom mirror, it has come to function as a de facto white board. The notes we leave to each other—about an impending housing lottery, say, or about the necessity of replacing the hand soap—invariably begin with the same salutation: “Girls...
Solano hopes that the Grolier’s location will soon receive a blue marker from the Cambridge Historical Society, dedicating it as a historical landmark...
...test his hunch, Ridker needed a simple blood test that could serve as a marker for chronic inflammation. He settled on Creactive protein (CRP), a molecule produced by the liver in response to an inflammatory signal. During an acute illness, like a severe bacterial infection, levels of CRP quickly shoot from less than 10 mg/L to 1,000 mg/L or more. But Ridker was more interested in the low levels of CRP - less than 10 mg/L - that he found in otherwise healthy people and that indicated only a slightly elevated inflammation level. Indeed, the difference between normal and elevated...
...Samurai, evasive maneuvers began before the film was finished being shot. Every work print of the movie was encoded with a hidden marker so that it could be identified if it was leaked. Even the scripts had codes stamped across every page, each corresponding to the owner's name. Before sending Samurai to dubbing houses, Warner Bros. rendered the copies less piratable by going through every scene and editing out characters not relevant to the particular dubbing job--an exercise that took about three days per cassette. The studio did send out "screener" copies to Oscar voters--a high-risk...
...Administration--which has lately tried to ease relations with Tehran--criticized the ban. And French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, though at odds with Washington's Iraq policy, agreed in this case. He warned a visiting Tehran official last week that France will view the balloting as "an important marker of democracy." Khamenei's move indicates he, at least, is listening. --By Scott Macleod