Word: lengthening
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...Shadows begin to lengthen across the courtyard as one last child, a small cross-eyed boy with no parents to wash the red dust out of his matted hair, has his gourd filled and wanders distractedly out the gate. Moments later the iron doors swing shut...
...hope to lengthen it in the future," shesaid. "Maybe eventually it will be an overnightevent."CrimsonMiriam R. FarkouhArea high school students joinLighthouse staffers for conference ongender issues...
...most strongly held beliefs has been that genes -- whether normal or abnormal -- are passed from generation to generation essentially unchanged. Now that assumption is being challenged. Last week scientists announced that in people with a form of muscular dystrophy, they had identified a segment of DNA that can lengthen substantially with each succeeding generation. Most disturbing, as the fragment lengthens, the illness becomes more severe. "This is not your garden-variety genetic defect," says Dr. Leon Charash, who chairs the medical advisory committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
...have been on to something. This year some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in this manner improves lift and can lengthen jumps 16 to 23 ft. But "the landings are tougher," says French jumper Steeve Delaup. "You lose more control." He favors the traditional style...
...circumstances -- a fertile couple having intercourse at the optimum moment in the woman's cycle -- it fails 3 times out of 4. When conditions are less than ideal -- when the woman is over 35, for example, or the man's sperm is defective or in short supply -- the odds lengthen dramatically...