Word: triangular
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Some viruses, like the ones that cause the common cold, look vaguely like soccer balls: round with a surface of bumpy triangular facets. Others, particularly the larger bacteriophages, resemble lunar landing modules. The flu virus looks like the head of a Roman mace, with spikes protruding in all directions; herpes viruses are spherical, as is the AIDS variety. Whatever their shape, all viruses have something in common. They are models of biological minimalism, consisting simply of a core of genetic material -- either a DNA or RNA molecule -- and a protective envelope made of proteins (most varieties have a double coat...
...they don't come through, it's no sweets until the Harvard-Yale-Princeton indoor triangular meet--in February...
Competing in only his third intercollegiate race this season, Paul Gompers ran away with first place at the men's cross country triangular meet held yesterday at Princeton. Despite Gompers' impressive finish, however, Harvard finished third with 67 points behind Princeton (29) and Yale...
Gompers also plans to take this week off from competition in preparation for the triangular with Princeton and Yale the following weekend...
Everyone knew better. His hairline slowly edged away from his eyebrows over the next few years, forking in the middle of his head sometime around junior year. By the time he donned a graduation cap, there was nothing underneath it but a small triangular patch of growth bordered by shiny skin, and framed by an otherwise healthy supply of black curly waves on the sides of his head...