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...biochemistry, function often follows form. Using sophisticated X-ray techniques to analyze the atomic structure of life's most basic components, scientists have been able to unlock astonishing mysteries. Focusing on a bacterium that uses a simple method of photosynthesis, Michel concentrated on a cluster of proteins that spans the organism's outer membrane, called the photosynthetic reaction center. These so-called membrane-bound proteins are like plants themselves: antennae protrude from cell surfaces, anchors hold them in the membrane, and rootlike tentacles reach into the cell's interior. But the molecules resisted study...
...this process lies the key to the scientific method: the interplay of fact and theory. Yet Interactions is poorly organized, and what should be an exciting progression of thought instead often confronts the reader as a muddle...
...local governments to pay prevailing local wages--based on union rates--for all construction and public works projects. The statute was created to prevent construction companies from submitting low bids to communities at the expense of employees' wages. With costs generally fixed on supplies and equipment, the simplest method to win a contract was to submit a low bid by slashing employee wages...
Many departmental offerings incorporate the same methods of learning that Core courses do. Professors may not spend half a lecture explaining their method of analysis in a higher-level class, but the concepts are there and are being applied--at least as much as in any Core class...
Soon a more complex laundering method was introduced. BCCI allegedly began to wire drug money deposited in its branches to accounts in foreign banks, using major New York City institutions as unwitting intermediaries. Once the funds were overseas, BCCI allegedly used them to buy certificates of deposit at banks in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Panama and the Bahamas. Using the CDs as collateral, BCCI then issued phony loans for slightly smaller amounts to the agents' Panamanian account. Once again, the agents gave the Colombians signed blank checks drawn against the account. BCCI collected the CDs as "payment" for the loans...