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...Coptic words, and exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that regard, it is a perfect mirror of her book...
Their cam'ras, mounted...
...then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...
...repair a wound. These signals are picked up by receptors on the membrane of the cell and passed along -- like batons in a high-speed relay -- through the interior, all the way to a master "on" switch positioned deep in the nucleus. Not surprisingly, many oncogenes, including one called ras, the first human cancer gene ever identified, are involved in this type of signaling pathway. But there are other molecules that determine whether the cell should heed these signals. And the small protein produced by MTS1 appears to be among the most important inhibitors of cell division. Last year researchers...
...bedroom communities of the academic welfare state. Harvard propaganda claims that it is tutors that distinguish our houses from mere dorms--this is the same outrageous intellectual pretension that leads us to call majors "concentrations." Buildings where college students live are "dorms" no matter how intellectually over qualified the RAs who live there...