Word: sprayings
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Late last year I watched in amazement as my mother took up Graffiti. (I'm talking about the system of entering text on digital organizers made by Palm, Handspring and Sony; she hasn't started spray-painting walls just yet.) Using a stylus on the screen, you are required to write characters the Graffiti way--an A without the horizontal line, and so on. It can be a daunting thing to learn, yet after watching my techno-challenged mom scribble happily on her new Handspring Visor, I felt certain it was the alphabet of the future...
...hemisphere's most advanced research in pharmaceuticals, immunology, mammal cell genetics, plant molecular biology and even plant cloning and transgenic experimentation is conducted at the CIGB. The buildings are crammed with state-of-the-art equipment imported from Europe, Brazil and Japan. Visitors pass through myriad barriers that spray visitors, dressed in special suits, with a disinfectant mist. The CIGB, which has its own Intranet, does handle a considerable amount of work with the kinds of bacteria and virus agents that can be used to develop bio-weapons - but then, so do almost all vaccine-producing labs around the world...
...Inca Trail to the "lost city" of Machu Picchu, Peru, to an hour-and-a-half-long amble through the coastal redwoods in Northern California's Muir Woods. The awe-inspiring photos alone will make you and your family want to pack your bags--don't forget the bug spray!--and head for the hills...
Suddenly, one student rushes toward the other and slips on the grass. It appears that he is about to die, but as his designated enemy stands above him, a spray of darts flies through the air. In a shocking turn of events, his opponent is dead...
...well do the acne scars too," says Dr. Robert Weiss, as he positions the firing end of his Cool Touch laser in a bed of fine lines just below her right eye. Pop! goes the laser, emitting a pulse of invisible light and a white puff of subzero cooling spray. Biederman feels something like the snap of a rubber band. After Weiss blasts the wrinkles under the right eye, he does the left. By the time he gets to the acne scars on her chin, her right eye is getting red and puffy...