Word: tracee
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...Cores (of no less interesting subject matter) at an enviable advantage. I took Science A-16 with 40 people last semester and was greatly surprised when Professor Henry Ehrenreich told me that my spoken English had improved a lot compared to four months ago, "though still with a slight trace of accent...
...carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies and, with their women, fled into the brush. Within minutes most of the 32 families had disappeared without a trace. A few young men who stayed behind explained that the inhabitants had pulled the same vanishing act four times previously when soldiers appeared...
Legislators in the United States should not balk at the registration of all firearms. The mere ownership of a deadly weapon brings with it huge responsibilities; registration constitutes an acknowledgment of that responsibility. The police will never need to trace a registration unless the weapon is involved in a crime. Why deny the police a valuable way of identifying criminals...
...colleagues for 16 years to create nothing less than the first genetic atlas of the world. The book features more than 500 maps that show areas of genetic similarity -- much as contour maps match up places of equal altitude. By measuring how closely current populations are related, the authors trace the pathways by which early humans migrated around the earth. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree...
Obviously, instead of searching the Bests for this year's perfect metaphor, we should be studying the Worsts, some of which we have also identified. The Environment rubric "A Little Is Too Much" refers to the discovery that even trace amounts of dioxin can be harmful. Doesn't it also apply to the year as a whole? A little O.J. is too much; even a trace amount of Newt Gingrich goes a long way; a mere grain of Forrest Gump is dangerous. In the cases of love, valour and compassion, of course, too much would still have been too little...