Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...method, known as "cervicaldislocation," involved grasping the rodent by thehead and sharply pulling the rest of the animalaway from the head, breaking the rodent's neck...
Wiles demonstrates the method with a woodenmouse on the surface of his desk...
Wiles says his major accomplishment in almosttwo years as Cambridge's lab animals commissionerhas been to implement carbon dioxide asphyxiationas the method of euthanasia for small rodents.Before, Wiles says, many researchers were usinganother, less humane method of killing mice andsmall rats...
...formidable enough opponent, mainly because researchers still don't understand the method to its madness. Like all viruses, HIV is simply a strand of genetic material (in this case the nucleic acid RNA) surrounded by a protein coat. A virus lacks the tools to reproduce unless it invades a living cell and takes over the host's molecular machinery. The intruder can then produce many copies of itself, eventually killing the cell. One of HIV's favorite targets is the CD4 T-cell, an important player in the human immune system...
...MOST COMMON method reporters employ to investigate anything is to create a set of reference mnemonics for it. We often call this the "background," and there's a background, or subtext, for every story. Al Gore for veep? He ran before; his wife hates dirty lyrics; he's big with greens. Boris Yeltsin visits the U.S.? He was here before and got drunk; his nation desperately needs our investment; he's growing unpopular at home...