Word: outward
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Benjamin Dattner '92, on his way home from an Outward Bound trip in Utah, was taken to South Fulton Medical Center in Atlanta for treatment following an altercation with Wahlberg, Atlanta police said...
...enforced." He won a significant victory early Saturday when the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 0 (Cuba and Yemen abstaining) for a strongly worded resolution authorizing nations with naval forces in the area to use "such measures . . . as may be necessary . . . to halt all inward and outward maritime" commerce. It was the first time in its 45-year history that the U.N. had authorized force to back up economic sanctions...
...major skin cancers. Both basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas arise from the most common skin cells, the keratinocytes, which form at the base of the epidermis and work their way toward the surface. Near the base, they are plump and are called basal cells. But as they move outward, they flatten to become the squamous cells that form the skin's tough, protective surface. Melanomas spring from melanocytes, cells that produce pigment...
...global trend may be on Mulroney's side. From the old Russian empire to the new Europe, there is a devolution of power not only upward toward supranational bodies and outward toward commonwealths and common markets, but also downward toward freer units of federation that would allow "distinct societies" to preserve their identity and govern themselves -- without bolting altogether. If Canadians, French and English speaking alike, choose to be part of that pattern, the current crisis over Quebec will pass just as those earlier ones did, perhaps never to be repeated again...
...jump from one place to another without traversing the space in between. Penrose's intuition, although he has no proof, is that these effects may apply not just to atoms but also to objects as big as brain cells. An act of creative thinking, he argues, could be the outward manifestation of neurons making quantum jumps from one energy state to another. Since computers do not operate by quantum rules, he says, they will never have insights...