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Twenty-one of the 28 heads of Notre-Dame’s kings of Judah (see page 33), some retaining traces of their original pigmentation (1220), were found in a bank vault and brought here.
The protein alignment of the M. incognita and R. leguminosarum nodL sequences was trimmed such that only identical amino acids remained, and the sequences back-translated, retaining the correct codon usage.
Kate O'Beirne (CNN's Capital Gang ) and Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) think that Clinton wants Annan to negotiate a "fig leaf," permitting the United States to bow out of war while retaining some shred of credibility.
Unlike the other colonists, who eventually melted into the culture, the Cajuns kept to themselves in the bayou, retaining their 17th-century language and customs.
The Wall Street Journal 's main front page feature examines the trend of nonprofit hospitals retaining their tax-exempt status while straying pretty far from their original charge of using their assets for such charitable purposes as caring for the indigent.