Word: switch
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...depends on how and when the genes are turned on by a segment of DNA that acts like a switch. Fish have a version of that switch too. For example, Zebrafish (ray-finned fish that split off from the lineage that led to lobe-fins early in the Devonian) have only part of the sequence, whereas coelacanths (lobe-fins closely related to lungfish) have a lot more of it. And the fishapod, presumably, had even more...
Tonight, the Faculty of Arts and Science will consider a motion from Professor Warren Goldfarb (on behalf of the curricular review’s Educational Policy Committee) to push concentration choice back a semester. The reasons for the switch seem fairly logical—a slew of first-year requirements and opportunities makes it difficult for freshmen to explore new academic areas in a meaningful way—and the change would bring the College in line with many of its peer institutions...
Religion 1529 captured the attention of the Harvard community and became one of the most popular classes of the semester. The course had to switch lecture halls four times before finding a room large enough to accommodate over 600 students...
...Capitol Hill last week, it was almost as if the two parties had decided to switch roles. At a press briefing, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was declaring, "Republicans don't have an agenda," a critique Republicans usually hurl at Democrats. The next day Hoyer and other Democrats from the Senate and House, along with state governors, got together to announce the party's unified plan for improving America's national security...
...Recent events have underscored his point: last May, top D.C. officials didn't learn a Cessna was intruding into their airspace until they saw it on CNN; last July 4, a test of the downtown emergency evacuation plan after the fireworks found that traffic signals didn't switch to evacuation timing, some federal radios weren't charged and some officials didn't have a clear sense of their responsibilities. Local officials say they fixed the problems afterwards. But as Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's congressional delegate, puts it: "You wonder how many afterwards there are going to have...