Word: vertexes
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...speed the discovery of drugs that attack their targets without poisoning those who take them, many biotech firms rely on design rather than serendipity. Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass., has halved, to 18 months, the time it takes to discover candidate drugs and is today among the most prolific generators of leads...
Above them five tied-together bedsheets dangled from the balcony railing. Behind, a big wooden table had been pounded into an obtuse angle with sneaker marks at the vertex. John Quincy Adams watched without judgment from his invisible, alarmed cage...
...information sessions have become playgrounds, trying to win employees instead of friends by sharing toys. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) provided all attendees with light-up yo-yos. Vertex Partners, acknowledging a more mature crowd, provided travel coffee mugs...
...fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica of the original's gilded angel on its vertex. Here too is Caesars Palace, looking like the architectural dream of an illiterate Mussolini; and alongside it are the Forum Shops at Caesars, a sort of baroque moon colony completely sealed off from the outside world, with computer-controlled sky effects that cycle from rosy-fingered dawn to purple dusk...
...goes. Stop it 13 ft. or so in the air, when it's at an angle to its floor position. Its perimeter, in rising, will have generated a curving shape, an extremely twisted or "torqued" elliptical cylinder. Not a section of a cone (the cone diminishes towards its vertex) but something else, a curvature whose radius does not alter but whose walls constantly change their angle. Then make it out of steel plates, 2 in. thick. You will end up with a shape that has not been used in sculpture before, and that has no precedents in other arts like...