Word: shortest
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...effort that truly embodies the spirit of global cooperation. The principal research is conducted at two large-scale industrial laboratories: the Sanger Centre in England and Washington University in St. Louis. The team decoding this particular chromosome (Chromosome 22--chosen because it is the shortest) also included scientists at Keio University in Japan and at the University of Oklahoma. Together, they produced a novel-length string of letters that identify the thousand or so genes at all points along the chromosome...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--The Harvard men's hockey team had a little extra baggage to carry with it on its second (and shortest) of three annual trips to upstate New York: the burden to prove that its last three losses in four games was only a minor setback...
...living at home, even for the shortest period of time, can be quite a trying and uncomfortable experience after time at college. If the Thanksgiving break wasn't enough to convince you of that, just wait until winter break. In closing, I leave everyone with one piece of advice. Avoid referring to college as "home" in front of your parents--their reaction will be less than positive...
...first two opponents in under a minute, DeNunzio eventually won the title with a 6-4 victory over Ben New of Cornell, ranked No. 12 nationally. His sheer domination in the tournament earned him the Sheridan Award, given to the wrestler who gets the most falls in the shortest amount of time...
...while Gaedel never again appeared in a game, he went down in the Guiness Book of World Records as the shortest person ever to play in the major leagues. His picture is surely somewhere in Cooperstown...