Word: vectored
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During week two I picked up the "swizzle." This is a forward vector in which the legs are repeatedly bowed in and out, apart and together, as if drawing a chain of DNA. This too I more or less mastered, while achieving some success at its inversion, the backward swizzle. I went home elated and then was tickled to find an ice-skating movie on cable called The Cutting Edge. In the movie, the Russian coach counsels his ice dancers, "Douglas, you are stem. Katia, you are petal. Together, you make flower." I was starting to feel a little floral...
...advantages in that you don't have to give the viral vector to the person....You can circumvent some of the problems that might arise due to virus," said White...
Even in this age of runaway jury verdicts, the punitive-damage awards that rang out in a hushed Miami courtroom last Friday were impressive. Against Philip Morris--$73.96 billion; R.J. Reynolds--$36.28 billion; Brown & Williamson--$17.59 billion; Lorillard--$16.25 million; Vector Group (owner of Liggett)--$790 million. By the time Circuit Court Judge Robert Kaye reached the bottom of the verdict sheet, the total had climbed to $144.8 billion. "A lot of zeros," the judge observed dryly...
Seven years after the fact, smoke still lingers over the fatal fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas - but FBI officials hope a new report will finally clear the air. According to Vector Data Systems, a British firm contracted to analyze video and reenactments of the 1993 siege, the flashes of light that fueled accusations of government wrongdoing were not FBI gunfire, as victims' family members believe. Instead, the report contends, the flashes were caused by sunlight glinting off metal and pieces of debris. Case closed? Not so fast. While this latest evidence would appear...