Word: tooled
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Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Widner, who serves as head of the faculty committee, explained that many students have in the past petitioned for combined concentrations in language and government, but that as "language is a tool used in the field of government," the department would rather give concentration credit than approve combined concentrations...
...this unwanted attention comes at a time when the CIA is trying to reshape its duties in a rapidly changing world. Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA chief of counterterrorism operations, has even suggested that the CIA is an "obsolete tool" whose functions could be handled by the other branches of the national-security bureaucracy, which include the National Security Agency, responsible for eavesdropping; the Reconnaissance Center, which handles satellite imaging; and the enormous, separate intelligence arms of the military services. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has called for the CIA to be dissolved and its responsibilities turned over...
...more than women seem to draw on anger as a tool, but it is decidedly double-edged. In a sport like golf, which depends on fine motor control, rage can spell disaster. In football, anger may help power up a blitzing lineman, but it can impair a quarterback's judgment...
...nuclear family with no obviously malfunctioning units (at least no relatives from the Ozarks). But the show is hampered by its originating gimmick: Allen, the host of a TV fix-it show, is all thumbs as a repairman at home. There are some amusing gibes at power-tool macho ("What is your problem with the blender? It's the only blender on the block that can puree a brick"), but dubious prospects for long-term...
Imagine an amplifier powerful enough to convert the inaudible whir of butterfly wings into a mighty roar. That's what a new tool called PCR routinely does to the most infinitesimal snippets of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic blueprint for all living things. Within the space of a few hours, an unprepossessing aluminum box stuffed with test tubes can create a billion copies of what started out as a single strip of DNA. A dividing cancer cell would take at least a month to perform the same stupendous feat. "This technique," marvels Dr. Harley Rotbart, a microbiologist...