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If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought experiment: Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirkiest performer in the history of the movies.
One question was what kind of public health advice to give about the air quality in Lower Manhattan in the vicinity of the fallen buildings.
The road winds inland towards the picturesque, fertile countryside in the vicinity of Fajã do Penedo and on to the pretty village of Boaventura.
After filtering out residues that are inaccessible to the solvent, the following residues were identified in the vicinity of the conserved arginines (the conserved arginines are in parentheses): K10, V12, V13, S14, K20 (r9), G40 (R25), G46 (R25), 48Y (R25, R45) and K30 and E31 (R45).
A glutamate residue (E173 in R. viridis PRC-H) located in the loop between strand 2 and 3 of the PRC domain is in the vicinity of the secondary quinone of the reaction center.