Word: reach
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...Cells cleverly separate the most active genes into their own special neighborhood, to make it easier for proteins and other regulators to reach them,” said Job Dekker, a senior author of the paper and associate professor at UMass Medical School...
Because budget cuts have forced the admissions office to scale back on school visits and mailings, officers have been encouraged to reach out to students individually via e-mail. Undergraduates are also running a message board for the first time this year on the admissions Web site to answer questions about the process...
...This expanded global reach, designed to bolster China's sense of security, has put Chinese citizens and enterprises in harm's way. "China is now widely exposed around the world," says Thomas Sanderson, deputy director of the transnational threats program at the Center of Strategic and International Studies, a Washington D.C.-think tank. Chinese engineers have fallen prey to kidnappers in the cities of Pakistan and the Nigerian river delta. Violent protests against an enclave of Chinese workers in Algiers - resented for depriving locals of jobs and being insensitive to Muslim customs -convulsed the Algerian capital in August. Before...
...Hong’s mentor and high school teacher, Rick Norton, explains, “In cycling, unlike in other sports, you make only incremental gains each year you train. It takes a special kind of discipline to continue training once you encounter difficulties, reach a plateau in your improvement, or when the gain you make is much smaller than the amount of work you put into...
...knew my role would be in education, and I knew I would be a teacher somehow, but I wanted to reach more students,” Wilson reflects. “It just took awhile to find the niche that suited...