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...into which molecules fit as precisely as a key fits a lock. To fully understand how a protein works, you have to be familiar with every nook and cranny on its surface, which is why the National Institute of General Medical Sciences will spend $20 million this fall to establish a series of research centers dedicated to a branch of proteomics known as structural genomics. The centers will detail, over the next 10 years, the shapes of 10,000 proteins. That's a tiny fraction of all the proteins found in nature, but the NIGMS thinks that number will cover...
...life saga, and was willing to get arrested not just in Cleveland in May and in Orlando, Fla., in June (Baptists), but plans to do likewise in Long Beach in July (Presbyterians) and possibly in Denver a week later (Episcopalians). The only transdenominational figure on the scene, he will establish the nightly-news rat-tat-tat for the entire season of contention. His attitude toward the various denominations? "We don't debate anymore. You change your policies, or we're going to split you apart and leave...
According to Sullivan, conservation districts can be "tailored to the particular needs of a neighborhood," and do not establish the same binding review procedures as an historic district...
...When I walked back to the Yard late that afternoon I looked smugly upon the other first-years, who didn't know anyone and who looked confused when I said I had spent the day in Eliot ("Is that one of the Union dorms?"). They were still struggling to establish themselves. But I had a connection, a built-in community, a dining hall where I didn't have to wait in line for an hour. I had arrived...
...Jong Il has signed off on official biographies that include achievements as diverse as hitting five bottles with a pistol in his left hand at 50 yards and writing six operas in two years (along with his steady output of more familiar tracts such as "Let Us Establish More Firmly the Monolithic Ideological System in the Whole Party and Society"). The leader of the hermetically sealed communist holdover had his South Korean counterpart, President Kim Dae Jung, in stitches Wednesday as he spoofed Western media portrayals of his "hermit lifestyle." The aura of mystery created by such portrayals certainly helped...