Word: picking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tweezers consist of two carbon nanotubes connected to electrodes on nanometer-sized glass tubes. Voltages applied to the electrode open and close the tweezers, allowing them to pick up and drop molecules...
...When you pick up medicine at the pharmacy, ask questions," Rosenthal recommended, urging a good understanding of the effects of the medication...
...notes rise and fall in pitch. Sing a note as it is played, and plunk out simple tunes. Dancing, skipping and banging on a wastebasket are also advisable. Suzuki training on strings and keyboard can begin as early as three. Most children can learn to play a recorder and pick out tunes on a piano at around...
...still not convinced of a general improvement in the human condition, pick up a copy of Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $25). Kolata, a science writer for the New York Times, resurrects a year when the worst could and did happen: at least 20 million and possibly more than 40 million people throughout the world took sick and died...
Including an 85-83 loss to Navy and an 87-82 loss to Marist, Harvard has lost its three games by a combined eight points. In those games, Harvard came out slow in the first half, only to pick it up in the second half but ultimately fall short...