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Biographer and essayist Justin Kaplan, who is a long-time associate of Haviaras, said that Houghton needs to respect the poetry room as more than a book nook...
...oddly, as the predictability recedes into a small speck on the horizon, as more and more of what I think and see and feel is filtered through new lenses, the wonderment with which I approach the world swells. Every red-earth-encrusted-nook, every monsoon-dampened-cranny, every horn blast and door-slam and shantytown and palace-wall screams of its life-altering-potentiality and bears the message that small places often conceal large secrets that an overly-habituated mind is too lazy to uncover...
What a protein does is largely determined by its shape. Proteins are stippled with pockets and grooves into which molecules fit as precisely as a key fits a lock. To fully understand how a protein works, you have to be familiar with every nook and cranny on its surface, which is why the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will spend $20 million this fall to establish a series of research centers dedicated to a branch of proteomics known as structural genomics. The centers will detail, over the next 10 years, the shapes of 10,000 proteins. That...
...which she writes exquisite script. She can still walk, and everywhere she goes, kids rush up to squeeze her hand or hug her. They know that she remains the same Mrs. Dillon, beloved for dressing up in costumes--not just for Halloween--and for putting sunflowers in every nook of the library...
...suggesting that today's multimillion dollar CT-scan machines are poorly maintained or that they routinely bathe you in excessive amounts of radiation. The issues are more subtle than that. We all have the sense that CT scans give you incredibly precise images that illuminate every nook and cranny of your body. But the truth is that CT scans, like MRIS, ultrasounds or other types of medical imaging, still require interpretation by radiologists who have trained for at least six years to figure out what those patches of light and dark mean. Otherwise, as Dr. Alec Megibow of New York...