Word: function
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...Massachusetts a few hundred kids boycotted the state test, but 99.8% did take the exams. Tests provide teachers, parents, school officials and public officials with information to address education problems. The recent spate of state exams has spurred unprecedented attention to the needs of low-performing students. Education cannot function without reliable information about its effectiveness. DIANE RAVITCH New York City...
...would imagine that a curator would probably not be named until sometime probably late in July or August," Kovach said. He said the Foundation will be able to function without a new curator into the early fall...
...sequencing rate, already the fastest around, even faster. In addition, Venter claims that by the end of the year, he'll have sequenced the genome of the mouse--whose 2.3 billion letters contain enough similarities to ours to make it vitally important to scientists tracking down human gene function...
...character of a statesmanlike cease-fire than of a scientific merger. The two teams will try to publish their work simultaneously--but not jointly--in an upcoming issue of a major journal, probably Science. They have agreed that patents are appropriate only at the point where a gene's function is understood...
...epics put their audience through this needless lifeboat drill, establishing characters whose main function is to be devoured or drowned. This applies here even to Billy, a tough loner with a sweet spot. Billy could be his own Bogart festival. At first he is the grizzled boat captain in To Have and Have Not; then he's greedy Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, risking his mates' lives to make the big score; finally, he nears the daft steeliness of The Caine Mutiny's Captain Queeg. Clooney bends his genial machismo to these darker shadings...