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...college women will be the survivors of rape or attempted rape by the time that they graduate), it is very difficult for survivors to find one another. There are many reasons for this difficulty. For one, it is impossible to see who a survivor is; there is no visible marker of membership for a group of survivors. Also, issues of confidentiality preclude mental health professionals from disclosing survivors' identities and friends of survivors rightly do not want to betray their friends' confidence. Moreover, it is difficult for survivors themselves to reveal their experiences. It is hard to know what...
...blocking out the nipples for coy Americans," said Huang, drawing over them with black, felt-tipped marker...
...rules handwritten in red magic marker are tacked on the wall. The rules prohibit alcohol, drugs and violence...
What causes porcine organs to be rejected so quickly is a sugar molecule on the surface of pig cells that identifies the tissue as unmistakably nonhuman. When the immune system spots this marker, it musters its defenses. PPL scientists recently succeeded in finding the gene responsible for the sugar and knocking it out of the nucleus of a pig cell. Their next step would be to extract that nucleus, insert it into a hollowed-out pig ovum and insert the ovum into the womb of a host sow. The sugar-free piglet that was eventually born could then be cloned...
...down right away. I have $50 in cash in my pocket which Tony, the elderly Asian man dealing at the table, changes into chips during a break between hands. This amount soon dwindles, becoming nothing at all within 15 minutes. I ask Tony to place a marker for me and I get up to hit the restroom, the ATM and the smoking section of the casino floor. Gone for less than five minutes, I return to find Tony replaced by Annie, a shuffle of the 8-deck shoe in progress and the largest white man I have ever seen sitting...