Word: spiral
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Like Beads. Khorana's creation is a duplicate of one of the thousands of genes in the spiral-staircase structure of the DNA molecule in the common intestinal bacterium E. coli. Unlike human genes, which include millions of chemical "steps" along much larger DNA molecules, this bacterial gene contains only 199 full steps, each a pair of letters in the genetic code. Consisting of chemicals called nucleotides, these letters make up words in the gene's message-in this case, instructions to transfer the amino acid tyrosine to the cell's protein-manufacturing centers...
...Americans, the most visible and immediately distressing price spiral undoubtedly is the one in coffee. Contracts for future purchases of coffee beans have recently been selling at an astonishing 304% higher than the 1975 lows; in some New York stores the retail price of coffee has hit $2.29 per lb., up from $1.79 a year ago. The principal cause is a crippling frost that in July 1975 killed or severely damaged an estimated 70% of Brazil's coffee trees. The frost struck after most of the 1975 crop had been harvested, so it did not cut exports immediately...
Friday and Saturday: Katherine Hepburn in A Bill of Divorcement at 7:30 and 10:20, and Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase...
From the outset, each sister was clearly unique. After Mary Lyon, "the founders of the Seven proceed in a descending spiral of unlikelihood," says Kendall. Sophia Smith, for example, inherited a fortune from a skinflint bachelor brother and intended to open a school for deaf-mutes until she was told that there were not enough of them to fill one. After rejecting a proposal that she make a bequest to Amherst-she believed that professors there were subversives bent on controlling central Massachusetts-Smith settled on starting the college, which opened in 1875. Matthew Vassar, a Poughkeepsie brewer, simply wanted...
...effort to put a lid on the pay-price spiral, Economy Minister Emilio