Word: paragraphed
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...chickens, you will find that a mouse has seven neck and 13 thoracic vertebrae, a chicken 14 and seven, respectively. The source of this difference lies in the promoter attached to HoxC8, a hox gene that helps shape the thorax of the body. The promoter is a 200-letter paragraph of DNA, and in the two species it differs by just a handful of letters. The effect is to alter the expression of the HoxC8 gene in the development of the chicken embryo. This means the chicken makes thoracic vertebrae in a different part of the body than the mouse...
...made up the last sentence to make the paragraph more believable. Everyone expects a little overpromising at the annual "upfronts," the expensive stage shows at which networks show trailers from their fall debuts and literally put on a song-and-dance for advertisers. At Carnegie Hall, CBS hired the Broadway cast of Chicago to disparage the competition to the tune of All That Jazz: "ABC is out of gas/while NBC eats horse's a__" (a reference to the horse-rectum-eating challenge on Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions...
...Game Time's many virtues is that--unlike, say, the last sentence of the preceding paragraph--Angell never for a moment forces the game to carry a meaning, metaphorical or otherwise, that it doesn't ask for. A deep thinker he may be, even an intellectual, but whatever baseball's true meaning, he has the good grace to write around it; he leaves the unutterable unuttered. The lure of the game, what draws the Nobelists and the laureates, may be the elusive but ever present possibility of perfection: the no-hitter, the flawless diamond of a double play, even...
Sanger got the news the next morning when her son Stuart and granddaughter Margaret read the newspaper. There they found a five-paragraph story announcing the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the pill as safe for birth control. The two, who lived next door, ran across the yard and opened the sliding glass door to Sanger's bedroom. It was 7 a.m., and she was eating breakfast in bed. Without the least bit of elation, just a sigh of relief, Sanger said, "It's certainly about time." Then perking up, she added, "Perhaps this calls for champagne...
Every medical advance comes with at least some caveats, but last week's news about an experimental treatment for people who are allergic to peanuts includes more than the usual paragraph of fine print. For starters, it's clear that the treatment is not a cure for peanut allergy. Not only might you have to take it for the rest of your life, but you would still have to avoid peanuts. And if it ever becomes available (a big "if," given the frosty relations among the companies involved in its development) the treatment is likely to be quite expensive...