Word: proofing
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...students are more presentable, but will they be higher achievers? The district says that student attendance and behavior have both improved--and that drug use has dried up to such a degree that the district lost half its federal grant to combat substance abuse. More conclusive proof will come with test scores, due in late summer. Until then, Diana Brokaw is keeping a scorecard of her own. "The other day six parents showed up to chaperone a field trip," she proudly reports. "And two of them were dads...
...London, I dragged my British friend (and host) around her hometown on the upper level of an open-air, double-decker bus where a dorky tour guide gave a running commentary on the sights of the city. As if that wasn't proof enough, I later discovered I was the ultimate tourist when I schlepped through endless souvenir shops searching for the perfect Union Jack pencil case for my sister, boxers for my boyfriend and tie for my dad. Somehow I didn't mind examining every London beer stein and every London magnet in every single store while my friend...
...working proteins. "The announcement of finishing the genome is to us a mini-event," says Allen Roses, worldwide director of genetics for Glaxo Wellcome and a prominent Alzheimer's researcher. "We've been making use of the information as it has become available, and we've already done some proof of the concept that finding genes for disease and developing the right drug for the right patient will actually work...
...Proof at the genetic level that origin means more than location is coming in. Researchers at Stanford have been studying liver, breast, prostate and lung cancers for clues to their telltale molecular fingerprints. Using microarrays to sense which genes are turned on in sample tissues, says geneticist Charles Perou, the Stanford team has discovered that most of the genes expressed by both normal breast cells and primary-breast-cancer cells are similar, and so are cells for normal lung tissue and lung cancer, normal prostate and prostate cancer, and so on--which should ultimately give doctors biochemical identifiers to guide...
Still, residents at the meeting pointed to Harvard's latest expansion plans as proof of the University's ongoing disregard for Cambridge's needs...