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Fox's X-Men: Days of Future Past included black heroes Storm (Halle Berry and Bishop Omar SySy)—but both characters were basically used as cannon fodder.

Although these vector systems offer many unique qualities and advantages, the three single-gene vector systems were basically used for cotransfection of the two vectors (heavy and light chain) into the mammalian host cells, while the two double-gene vectors were used for single gene transfer.

To initially analyze SNPs within and around the AKT1 gene region, genotype data for approximately 300,000 SNP markers that resulted from whole-genome genotyping with the patient samples with clinical data for cancer and smoking history were basically used, and the genotype data for all of the SNPs with AKT1 gene annotation were extracted for a total of 300 samples.

"We were basically using our personal cellphones instead," Mr. Klomberg said.

"So it wasn't that they were reporting that they saw a tank heading down the street, they were basically using it almost as a real-time bulletin board," he says.

Although RSC and PI are useful parameters for assessing of carbonate and bicarbonates hazard, adj.SAR is basically used for assessment of alkalinity hazard in irrigation water, amount of which was 2.1 18.6 with a mean value of 7.3 (Table 1).

"It's basically used for scheduling, which is most of what we do," he said.

The typical square cubicle is basically used in corporate offices that are more structured, Mr. Sorrenti said.

"This malware was developed for the purposes of espionage and is basically used to gather data from the computers infected".

"It just doesn't make sense for Indian soldiers to be basically used as cannon fodder when the U.S. is getting bogged down and taking casualties".

Maybe it says something positive about age that SHELLEY WINTERS, whose character was basically used as one long fat joke, was a baby of 50 at the time.