Word: scoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Romer, who had to do a bit of quick-draw fund raising. His seatmate, Bruce Brannon, loaned him $45, but he figured he'd need more. "So I walked down the aisles looking for the first guy who showed a flicker of recognition, and then I said, 'Scoot over; let's talk,'" says the Governor, who scored a further $60. Another kindly soul loaned him his phone card. "I told him, 'I gotta make an appointment with a guy named Bill,'" says Romer. No improper donations here. By week's end he'd repaid them...
...Park is scheduled to be torn down in a few years. As any Sox fan knows, its history is not one of piling up in glee on the pitcher's mound and having champagne baths in the locker room. It is one of Bill Buckner letting a routine grounder scoot through his legs...
...form of early onset colon cancer known to afflict particular families. These genes are carried by as many as 1 in every 200 Americans, making them the most common cause of cancer susceptibility yet discovered. In their normal form, these biological versions of computerized spelling checkers produce proteins that scoot along strands of replicating DNA, searching for tiny typos. When a protein finds an error in one of the words spelled out by DNA's four-letter chemical alphabet, it flashes an alarm. A person born with only one good copy of any of these genes is fine, until some...
...editor Terry McDonell, entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell and London Times correspondent Sue Ellicott) discussing the day's news. Designed as a sort of hip McLaughlin Group, the pilot looks more like an MTV remedial class for the news-impaired (after trading quips about Michael Jackson, these hang-loose journalists scoot over to a pool table for a couple of shots before the commercial...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Featuredwill be violinist Scoot Yoo and cellist AndresDiaz. The program includes Voss' Scherzo forOrchestra, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello,and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Sanders Theatre, 8p.m. $5, $7 and $9 for students...