Word: tricking
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...though such offerings are still the bread and butter of frequent-travel programs. With the average travel-frequency program costing $25 million to maintain, travel suppliers know they had better offer alternatives to their members, who may be shut out of award redemptions during popular travel seasons. So the trick is to find other ways to meet their obligations...
...that none of the researchers in Folkman's lab wanted anything to do with it. Finally one of them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
...change of pace can be summed up as: an American girl abroad looks around and thinks. Her observations and reflections are presented in 54 short, numbered sections. Reading them is similar to listening to a series of piano etudes, each with its own theme playfully developed. Baker's neat trick is to make the difficult task of conveying an emerging childhood consciousness look easy and innocent. There are no yucky parts. As Nory, pretending to be her mother, says, "There are, it is true, many terrible things in real life, but you two are young and you don't need...
General Magic, which was building portable electronic organizers long before the Palm Pilot made them popular, has a new trick up its sleeve. At this week's Networld+Interop show, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm, whose clunky gear missed the handheld revolution, will unveil a voice-activated electronic secretary, code-named Serengeti, that lets users dial in from their cell phones and ask to hear phone messages, e-mail, addresses, appointments, stock quotes and news. The service, due this summer, responds to normal speech and will be available from wireless carriers for $20 to $30 a month...
...misunderstanding of TT. It is not done with only the hands; it is an interiorized process called into being by compassion for someone who is in need and is coupled with a deep-seated, knowledgeable intentionality. The technique used in Emily's study comes close to being a parlor trick and in no way resembles TT either in concept or in practice. One wonders what was behind a respected medical journal's publication of this travesty of professional inquiry. DOLORES KRIEGER, Ph.D., R.N. Professor Emerita of Nursing Science New York University Columbia Falls, Mont...