Word: referents
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That doesn't make working on those cases any easier for Wictum and her colleagues. They remember the names of animals that have been fatally abused and refer to the people who do it as "serial killers." Kun, a mother of two, finds cases involving children as victims particularly difficult. "When I got samples for a case where a 6-year-old was mauled by dogs, I was glad I was alone in the lab," says...
...said that although students will not understand the difference between an Angus and a chuck beef patty—the names refer to different body parts of the cow—they will appreciate taste differences...
...line, forcing them to respond. The three European countries with which Iran had been negotiating - Britain, France and Germany - agreed Thursday that there was no purpose in further negotiations as long as Tehran holds its current course, and they called for an emergency session of the IAEA board to refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council. A decision along those lines is expected either at an emergency session held later this month, or else at the next IAEA board meeting in March...
...creativity research, we refer to the three Bs?for the bathtub, the bed and the bus?places where ideas have famously and suddenly emerged. When we take time off from working on a problem, we change what we're doing and our context, and that can activate different areas of our brain. If the answer wasn't in the part of the brain we were using, it might be in another. If we're lucky, in the next context we may hear or see something that relates?distantly?to the problem that we had temporarily put aside...
INDICTED. ZHAO YAN, 43, New York Times researcher; on charges of revealing state secrets; in Beijing. While the indictment does not refer to a specific story, Zhao was arrested in September 2004, days after a Times report correctly predicted that former President Jiang Zemin was about to step down from his post as head of the military. Zhao, whom the Times has said did not provide the newspaper with state secrets, faces a 10-year prison sentence if convicted...