Word: thinnest
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...team found that it obtained much better results when it attached the cells to a sticky substrate like fibrinogen, a protein involved in blood clotting. "And then," says Ernest, "we made a serendipitous discovery." Dr. Karine Gabrielian, a physician on the team, had been struggling to fashion the thinnest possible slivers of fibrinogen. Checking on her samples one morning, she found that some of the slivers had curled up into spheres, each the size of a coarsely ground speck of pepper. Gabrielian added several of these odd-looking constructs to a culture dish that also contained fetal RPE cells. Within...
Your otherwise fine article on new theories about the universe reinforces the popular notion that scientists are muddling buffoons who grasp at the thinnest of straws to support their pet ideas. Science at the cutting edge is always controversial, and only with time are conflicting ideas resolved into what we call truth. We often forget that civilization is held together by a framework of scientific achievement, every piece of which was once controversial...
This is not realistic fiction; it's Glocca Morra with a boarded-up main street. Or maybe Yoknapatawpha lite. At its thinnest it seems more jokey than funny. Occasionally, it threatens to become patronizing. Most of the time it works, however, not so much because the author keeps things stirred up but because he persuades the reader to share his great, openhearted fondness for his ridiculous characters. A compact is signed, Russo saying something like, "O.K., yeah, Sully's being a bit of a jerk, but watch what he's going to do now . . ." Or, "Did you meet Vera...
That may have been his way of demonstrating that he was undaunted by Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges and the Senate's lukewarm 52-48 confirmation vote -- one of the thinnest margins in court history. As in the abortion ruling last week, he has linked up with the court's hard-line conservatives, , Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. These three have often combined with Byron White and three more moderate conservatives, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter, thus giving the court a conservative majority in most important cases last term...
Cohen estimates that for every American-made condom, he sells three Japanese, brands. "People want the thinnest one you can get," he explains...