Word: pit
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...game in which Sharpe had a 96-yard touchdown reception. The media hacks didn't seem to care--they were already asking him just how ugly the Super Bowl was going to be. A title match between the Ravens and the New York Giants would pit two offenses as conservative as John Ashcroft against each other. Wouldn't such a low-scoring affair upset the fans...
...Tournament, available only for the Playstion 2, is the fourth in the Tekken series of fighting games, which pit one character against another until only one remains standing. This latest version adds the ability of tagging in - in other words, switching with - another character during the fight. Pairing certain characters together allows you to perform special tag-blows by tossing your opponent from one character to the next...
...Pit-viper venoms--particularly those from the genus Bothrops, of which the Central American terciopelo snake is a member--contain compounds that closely resemble substances used by white blood cells to fend off bacterial infections. Some of these substances work by damaging or disrupting lipids within the bacterial cell wall. A decade ago, microbiologists Edgardo Moreno, of Costa Rica's National University, and Bruno Lomonte, of the University of Costa Rica, realized that a muscle-destroying toxin in terciopelo venom behaved the same...
After several pit stops along the Rockville-Bethesda corridor, Venter established his brainchild--Celera--in Rockville. Here he built the world's largest collection of genome-sequencing computers and won the race to map the 3 billion letters of human DNA (as well as the genomes of several other species). But with the NIH's Human Genome Project publishing much of the same data free on its website, Venter must now convince corporate customers that his DNA maps are more accurate and his proprietary software tools indispensable...
...artist's voice] could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama...