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alk
noun
Abbreviation of alkali
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We were asked to slip on fabric bootees so we could alk on the floorboards splashed with crimson and yellow, punctuated by spots of lime green, black and sky blue, where Pollock laid his canvases to paint.
By Mark Doty The New Yorker, October 16 , 1995P. 50 ALK story about poet Stanley Kunitz's garden outside of his house in Provincetown, MA.
The New Yorker, October 16 , 1995P. 50 ALK story about poet Stanley Kunitz's garden outside of his house in Provincetown, MA.
There are animated parodies of "2001," in which, with Richard Strauss music and a giant slab with metaphysical overtones, the syllables "oo," "all," "e," and "alk" are created by seismic disturbance.
ALK: War in its absence is always impossible to convey and our cultural love affair with it after the event continues.
The cancer concerned, known rather cryptically as non-small-cell lung cancer, is actually the most common form of the disease, accounting for about 80% of cases.In 2007 a group of researchers discovered that the fusion of two normally independent genes, EML4 and ALK, into one aberrant gene seems to drive the formation of tumours.
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At the meeting, Dr Bang reported the first clinical trial of crizotinib, on 82 patients whose tumours have the EML4-ALK fusion gene.
Boorish behavior -- death stares, trash-alk that many foreign opponents could not understand, and occasional forearms to the neck -- almost obscured the players' superior athleticism.
There is a subsequent bit in which a sage speaks of the four basic "alks" of life, and expresses her belief that life is a beanstalk.
Since then it has been found that fused EML4-ALK causes 3-5% of all non-small-cell lung cancers (about 10,000 cases a year in America alone).
Howard Alk, one of the show's three co-producers, pointed out the cast: Eugene Troobnick, a former editor of Playboy"; Andrew Duncan, who was once a prison psychologist; Paul Sand a mime who has toured with Marcel Marceau; Linda Siegel Barbara Harris Allan Arkinin, a guitar-playing young man and co-author of "The Banana Boat Song"; Severn Darden, a onetime medical student from New Orleans.
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