Word: methods
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...being prettily tied up and awaiting some high-tech unpleasantness to be continued (but not necessarily concluded) the following Monday. As a technique, split screen has been around almost since the beginning of the movies. Although it has often been used merely for flashy effect, it is the only method of efficiently imparting simultaneously occurring events. And those are done in ways that can, potentially at least, enhance suspense - which always depends on the audience knowing in advance the bad, impending stuff...
...revamped its method for selecting a national team. Since the early 90s, USA Basketball, the sport's governing body, would cobble together a group of big-name NBA standouts, give them a few days to practice, and expect gold at the Worlds and Olympics. The rest of the world, whose players often compete together since they've worn size 2s, is now too advanced for such slipshod organization...
...Carl Reiner's, Howie Morris' and Imogene Coca's. He wasn't a great mimic ? all the voices had his nasal Long Island timbre ? but he was a confident actor. And since each routine tended to evolve as he performed it, Lenny was less a sick comic than a Method...
...Fear not, there is method in his madness. While working as a nurse in intensive care, Shaw became familiar with a group of volunteers helping to support young people with cancer. "They really impressed me," he says of the charity CanTeen, "so I thought I'd do some work for them." In the 3,300 km he's walked so far, Shaw has raised $650 in his collection tin for CanTeen, which was formed in 1985 to raise awareness for teenagers living with cancer. Even Shaw's jaunty bandanna has meaning; it was adopted as the group's symbol...
...human genome was first sequenced using an updated version of a method developed in the 1970s by Frederick Sanger. That method, while reliable and accurate, is also expensive and time-consuming. To mitigate the cost, some companies are currently using sequencing-by-synthesis methods, including the base extension method and Church’s preferred ligation method...