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...cryptic message lifted from the couple's trash last Sept. 15, for instance, signaled Ames' interest in scheduling a meeting in Bogota. It read, in part, "If you cannot meet ((piece missing)) 1 Oct, signal North after 27 Sept with message at Pipe." Through electronic and personal surveillance, investigators soon decoded the message: North was a mailbox where Ames and his handlers conveyed impersonal, prearranged messages; Pipe was the dead drop where detailed messages, instructions and money were exchanged...
Schreiber says of this work, FK506 taught us a lot about signal transduction--the way in which cells received signals and translate them into action...
Heroic Professor of Classical Greek and Comparitive Literature Gregory Nagy is concerned with the socio-cultural implications of cross-walk wars. "If the signal is a defiant stopping humanoid in red and a cheerful walking humanoid in green, then I would not [press the button]," says Nagy. "There is not enough semiotic power," Semiotic power?" Anyone who took Heroes would know what I mean...
...buttons really work? FM put the crosswalk button at the intersection of Throwbridge and Harvard streets the test. The results? Careful research has shown that pressing this button means the difference between getting a walk signal and waiting eternally...
German women's luge coach Sepp Lenz is back at work, hobbling on one leg. He lost the other last December when U.S. slider Bethany Calcaterra-McMahon collided with him on a track in Winterberg, Germany, after he failed to hear the "all-clear" signal that indicated she had started her race. He, of course, will never be the same; perhaps neither will she. German and American lugers had another, even darker, intersection last October, when skinheads beat up medal hopeful Duncan Kennedy, who intervened in a barroom incident to protect teammate Robert Pipkins, a target because he is black...