Word: signal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of firm evidence that it's dangerous, here are some precautions: keep your conversations short, reserving longer chats for conventional phones; opt for a cell phone that directs the antenna away from the head; reduce cell-phone usage in buildings and cars, since that requires a stronger signal (or if you talk a lot from your car, install a phone with an external antenna); last, try a headset, with the phone strapped to your waist. This keeps the antenna away from your head--and that precious brain...
...that Blobel and a colleague proposed that each protein comes with a built-in chemical signal--a kind of "ZIP code"--that tells it where it should go. Soon Blobel and his research team identified just such a "signal peptide"; and since then, he and his team have shown that signal peptides are found in just about all plants and animals...
Many new students use their new financial independence to compensate for their different backgrounds--buying items like clothes and material goods that signal status, according to Matthew J. DeGreeff '89, a senior admissions and financial aid officer and a first-year proctor...
...surprising that this logic is new to the group. McNeely privately complains that some of the guys are committing the ultimate faux pas, talking to each other, across the stage, during their numbers. They make mistakes: Voices crack, chords go out of tune and Liang has to signal one of his earnest-looking friends to make more of an effort to cut off with the rest off the group, since he's breaking later than everyone else and sticking out. On a shuttle bus provided by their clients, the boys are already preparing for calypso night at the Fly Club...
...wobbly. Once a fresh update of the Hard Rock Caf? model, the tourist-trap turf has been invaded by everyone from sports figures (All-Star Caf?) to bikers (Harley Davidson Caf?) and wrestlers (the WWF restaurant, coming soon to New York?s legendary Paramount Theater). Does PH?s retreat signal the start of the great eater-tainment shakeout? One can only hope...