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  • They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik. Knowledge is Power
  • College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
  • A microarray consists of single-stranded DNA arranged on a wafer the size of a postage stamp.
  • An equipment failure of accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded.
  • Maintain decent instruments, can not be stranded in spots.
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  • Behind West, the retractable path that led to the elevator retracted, leaving them stranded on the circular platform.
  • The hapless passengers were stranded at the airport for three days.
  • Greek troops battled snow storms and rescued 108 train passengers stranded in sub-zero temperatures yesterday, authorities said.
  • The RT enzyme converts the single-stranded virion into doublestranded DNA for subsequent integration into the host cell genome.
  • High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
  • Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
  • But private sales are not and buyers are left stranded if their newly-bought vehicle is not what they expected.
  • Is it possible the first Starbuck, from the old series, joined the fray, and was killed -- remember, he "mated" with an angel and was stranded on a planet in Galactica 80, so his arrival could have been delayed. Mike Ragogna: OMG! No More BSG!
  • Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists.
  • Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run.
  • As well as having some teachers stranded at home, headteachers were also concerned about health and safety on icy playgrounds.
  • In experiments one usually measures the time it takes one voltage-driven single-stranded DNA to translocate through the [alpha] hemolysin channel of a known structure.
  • Lying across it like a stranded whale, if, that is, whales wear pink flying suits, was Carol.
  • But his family were left stranded after the airline said he could not fly despite having a return ticket. The Sun
  • The receding tide stranded the whale.
  • Planning your route using a map leads to being stranded at motorway on-ramps.
  • Inevitably, after a couple of pints my carefully planned schedule of return train connections had collapsed, leaving me stranded alone at Reading in a frozen waiting room at four in the morning.
  • ‘Doing everything on your own had been quite taxing but without the car I would have felt quite stranded’, she says.
  • In Basingstoke around 2,000 vehicles were stranded overnight on jammed roads. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the region shivered in Artic conditions hundreds of passengers at Manchester airport were left stranded after flight were cancelled.
  • When rising seas severed the link, a wide range of wildlife was left stranded on the newly-created island.
  • Also in the same third year of Ten-in, a great tree-trunk, one hundred and fifty feet long, was stranded on the seashore near a shrine called Ube-no-yashiro, at Miyanoshita-mura, which is in Inaba. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
  • It will have to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in refunds to stranded passengers and compensation to those on the trapped trains. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite being handed perhaps one of the most intriguing ensembles ever assembled for a cheesy Hollywood movie, Marshall continuously squanders his riches in service of a lame, multistranded story that goes nowhere. Moberly Monitor-Index Homepage RSS
  • A misfield from Bopara in the deep led to Redmond turning for a second; he was stranded half way down when McCullum sent him back, but Kieswetter's overpitched throw went right through the bowler Broad. The Guardian World News
  • Earth was made of embryos like Mars, but Mars is a stranded planetary embryo that never collided with other embryos to make an Earthlike planet.
  • Patricia said she is appalled that she was left stranded to deal with the crisis herself.
  • The stranded climbers were picked up by a rescue helicopter.
  • It's whipgloss, ladies: the grasses steep-edged in the storm, dense with hornets trying to trick their way under the roots while the stains keep creeping out of my fist, moistening the knee of my pants, your pants, our pants leaving us stranded like creatures that gurgle under the waste as the mud hardens. Gloss
  • Some residents of Lincoln Street were stranded in their own homes as water lapped doors at the front and back of their homes yesterday.
  • Thousands of holidaymakers and lorry drivers were left stranded. The Sun
  • He was fired for leaking classified information to save some stranded astronauts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Trapped, suffocating, and every other clichéd word one can look up in the thesaurus to describe being stranded in this small terraced island in the Pacific.
  • Some escape the many-stranded web of disadvantages.
  • Next, send them out on to the ice floes of the frozen Baltic and get them to shout - in choral unison - at a stranded 10,000-ton ice breaking vessel, and you have got something called Mieskuoro Huutaja (Men's Choir Shouters) ... a new art form, and it is taking parts of the world by arctic storm. Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives
  • Yazaki's masterful but all-too-infrequent oeuvre, a marked contrast to 2006's colorful, multistranded (if equally femme-centric) "Strawberry Shortcakes. Variety.com
  • Jeff (Joel McHale) and his study-group pals participate in a flight-simulation competition with another local college; the gang gets stranded on board when the shuttle is towed from the school parking lot. Community First Look: Lost in Space
  • Authorities say hundreds of thousands remain stranded after their homes and villages were inundated, clinging to the roofs of houses or whatever dry speck of land they can find. 1.2 Million Homeless After Floods | Disinformation
  • But his family were left stranded after the airline said he could not fly despite having a return ticket. The Sun
  • More than 2,000 home movers were left stranded, with their purchases delayed or postponed until the next day. Times, Sunday Times
  • While 19th century viewers of the original stereograph for Reaching for the Out of Reach #9 may have enjoyed the dramatic image of luckless passengers shipwrecked on the shores of Massachusetts, it's hard to imagine they would be similarly amused by the sad Victorian-looking characters stranded atop coffee bales and beneath umbrellas while the crippled ship looms like a set piece from some 3D Tim Burton film. The New York Public Library: New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands
  • That's why it took a week to rebook all the travelers who were stranded by a snowstorm that hit the Northeast over Christmas weekend. 4 Reasons Why U.S. Airlines Are Set To Make A Profit In 2011
  • It's a country with multistranded traditions, not just a single Confucian one. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • The lack of fresh water here forced him to sail eastward to St Ann's Bay where he stranded the ships side by side a bow's shot from the shore.
  • And we got to the next exit down the road here and we went to pull off, and the snow had drifted up, and we were stranded there.
  • Thousands of holidaymakers and lorry drivers were left stranded. The Sun
  • When a live stranded turtle is found, it is often brought to a rehabilitation center for recovery and eventual release.
  • You are watching a film showing a group of people stranded in a snowstorm. Self-Hypnosis
  • Richard Hertzler/Intelligencer Journal via Associated Press WATER RESCUE: A motorist stranded in floodwater waited for firefighters to reach him in Lancaster, Pa., Photos of the Day: Sept. 30
  • A strict investigation was made, and it was proved by the testimony of the people in Provincetown that all the apparatus was in perfect order and the keepers and surfmen exerted themselves heroically in aid of the doomed vessel, but that she was stranded so far from shore that it was simply impossible to reach her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • The receding tide stranded the whale.
  • Commuters were left stranded during morning peak hours at some township zones while some had to hike to work.
  • More than 2,000 home movers were left stranded, with their purchases delayed or postponed until the next day. Times, Sunday Times
  • The last thing you want to do is find yourself stranded in a stampede of people all trying to leave at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
  • They remain stranded in freezing weather and rapidly worsening conditions.
  • That'ssome distance fromthe 200 losses that party insiders expected before the elections, andwould leaveourPrime Minister stranded ingrim territory. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
  • None of those stranded at the observation deck and restaurant on top were injured.
  • A gritty multistranded action-thriller, 'The Tournament' brings together international killers from every imaginable discipline in a blood bathed contest to the death. Twitch
  • Several dead beluga whales washed ashore recently in Alaska after dozens were temporarily stranded on mud flats during low tide.
  • The present invention proposes exonuclease III digesting double stranded nucleic acid molecule coated in microporous plate and containing special marker to detect transcription factor protein.
  • She is at our constituency house in Oxfordshire and is stranded because of the solar-powered car. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Lee misfielded, Butcher called for a second that was never there, aborted his run and left Vaughan stranded.
  • On single-stranded oligonucleotides, all the guanines are oxidized to the same extent.
  • All ferries to and from Rottnest were cancelled on Thursday because of wild weather, leaving hundreds of schoolies - and probably a few toolies - stranded until Friday when ferry services will resume.
  • As I left tonight, darkness of course had fallen and you can hear people yelling for help, you can hear the dogs yelping, all of them stranded, all of them hoping someone will come.
  • Aid agencies have been unable to get through to the thousands of refugees stranded on the border.
  • The likelihood of a crew being stranded in orbit is thus reduced. ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch
  • No, but if you left it stranded there in the wind and sun, green and sappy as it is now, ye'd have every seam and crack startin 'till the ribs shone through, and no amount of calkin' would make it watertight agin. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories
  • single-stranded RNA
  • Breechings for all guns are to be made of the best hemp, of three-stranded rope, shroud-laid, and soft; and for smooth-bore guns not to measure less than seven and a half nor more than eight inches in the coil, excepting those for IX-inch guns, which are to measure nine and a half inches, and for XI-inch ten and a half inches. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
  • I was left stranded in no man's land with constant Mujahedin gunfire strafing overhead. CODE BREAKER
  • Two single-stranded oligos, GAGAEXHO and GAGAESAL, were annealed to generate a double-stranded oligo with XhoI and SalI cohesive ends.
  • Streets were more like rivers as rescue teams set off in rubber dinghies to help stranded locals. Times, Sunday Times
  • We detected antibodies to double-stranded DNA by using the lie method on Crithidia luciliae substrate, and we considered the tests positive when all of the kinetoplast was stained at serum dilutions of 1: 20.
  • The pileup, which is under investigation, left nearly 100 people stranded in damaged and trapped cars, police said. Latest News - UPI.com
  • Like other flaviviruses, West Nile virus is a small, single stranded, positive sense RNA virus comprising about 11 000 nucleotides wrapped in a nucleocapsid and surrounded by a lipid membrane.
  • Jewelry is a key tool, usually stacked and multistranded rhinestones are an everyday talisman. The Shopping Diet
  • Pulsipher says rescuers were able to find the two other men who were stranded on what he calls a hazardous climb. Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • Synopsis: An anthropologist is stranded on a small Pacific island whose only inhabitant is a mechanical mining machine that is remotely controlled by Annie, a 12 year old autistic girl who is using the machine as a form of therapy. REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois
  • In 1609, a group of British colonists led by Sir George Somers was shipwrecked and stranded on the islands for 10 months.
  • He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
  • As a result, stranded animals are frequently misidentified and those seen at sea are often identifiable only to the level of family or genus.
  • With no radios capable of contacting the Paras in the town or in Amarra, the Redcaps were stranded.
  • When considered in the context of other studies using chemical or heat treatment of capsids, our study indicates that penton release may be a common trend among double-stranded DNA containing viruses.
  • Problems began yesterday afternoon when a tram became stranded near the station when the power lines became tangled with its overhead power connection.
  • Many workers and students were left stranded because they did not carry sufficient funds to pay the new fares.
  • He stranded in the middle of his speech.
  • Kinetic IR spectroscopy was used to reveal β-sheet formation and water expulsion in the folding of single-chain monellin (SMN) composed of a five-stranded β-sheet and an α-helix. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
  • I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends.
  • Tourists got stranded abroad or marooned at home. Times, Sunday Times
  • Villagers remained stranded as they could do nothing about the continuous flow of water but wait until it subsided.
  • If Ryan found himself stranded on the lower deck, he would stick his feet through the metal grid and try to unseat his smug-faced sibling from the upper bunk.
  • The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania. The Song of The Dodo
  • In effect they shut down the airport leaving thousands of farang (farang being the Thai word for a foreigner of European ancestry) tourist stranded. WN.com - Photown News
  • Also, he didn't really like the idea of being stranded on his own with Leanne. GOING OUT
  • But a storm blows up and the pair end up stranded on a remote outcrop - where love blossoms. The Sun
  • In spite of my warnings about leaving the boat where it would stay afloat, the inevitable had happened and he was stranded.
  • At the height of this tourist season taxi drivers went on strike, leaving holidaymakers stranded at airports and unable to reach their destinations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Today's entry question comes from kh: Which hero would you like to be stranded with on an island? Archive 2009-02-01
  • Double-stranded oligos were multimerized using T4 DNA ligase in the presence of XhoI and SalI restriction enzymes to generate tandem arrays.
  • At the height of this tourist season taxi drivers went on strike, leaving holidaymakers stranded at airports and unable to reach their destinations. Times, Sunday Times
  • We stopped to give a tow to that stranded boat, the one with the two families on it.
  • I grew my hair long, pierced my ears and then got slightly stranded by the punk thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Left are the FS6, the one which gave the stranded firefighters a lift, and a 1970 Snorkel with a boom and a cage for real emergencies.
  • She was left stranded unable to return home to her 12-year-old daughter and ailing mother.
  • Coria claims his second break with two more unplayable backhands down the line that leave Agassi stranded.
  • The big freeze had already begun to affect airline passengers yesterday with hundreds left stranded after snow and strong winds grounded flights to Europe and north America.
  • All the annealed double stranded oligos were cloned into the StuI site using blunt end ligation.
  • He was fired for leaking classified information to save some stranded astronauts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or you could have got stranded on a mudbank you'd never realized was there. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • They survived by clinging onto hay bales throughout the night, finding themselves stranded on a small patch of dry land the next day. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was not a good situation: stranded alone in France in a house full of memories and wallowing in grief. Times, Sunday Times
  • While the abortive translation represents a very remote possibility due to the negative strandedness of the influenza virus genome, an efficient cellular uptake of γ-irradiated virus particles is the most likely mechanism to the induction of Tc cell responses. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It's the warm, slow joy of the mariachi-tinged Stranded, the tick-tock twang of Blue As Your Blood or the pre-rock'n'roll balladry of Torch Song that come to define this album's charms, and very considerable those are too. The Walkmen: Lisbon - review
  • Thousands of homes were without electricity, many roads were impassable and hundreds of drivers were stranded. Times, Sunday Times
  • In eastern Sudan, the rising river Gash, which flows into the country from the Ethiopian plateau, had also created flash floods in the Kassala area, leaving hundreds of families stranded. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Dozens of police were called in to contain the protest, and thousands of passengers were left stranded.
  • I recently realized something - they are not 'islanded' or stranded! Promo
  • Stranded in a tiny village without amenities, he eagerly accepts an offer of shelter in a local abode.
  • Our ship stranded near the submerged reefs.
  • The shutdown of air traffic after 9/11 stranded thousands of travelers and disrupted business.
  • He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
  • Heavy cloudbursts over hills around the resort brought silt and mud tumbling down onto roadways, leaving motorists stranded.
  • Some people stranded on a garage roof were rescued by boat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stranded in the paddy field mud of the Winton track, Ambrose amazed fans by deflating his rear tyres to drive himself out of the bog and back into the race - but only after missing some 20 laps of the race.
  • If your low-budget airline collapses, you may be left stranded abroad.
  • Depending on the nature of the catenated form of the original ligation product, bands corresponding to catenanies or single-stranded circles and their linearized versions were obtained.
  • At sunset, the tribe trailed away home, leaving me stranded half way between earth and heaven.
  • Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
  • The Federal Government is loading another ship in Australia to deliver feed to the 52,000 sheep stranded in the Middle East.
  • He struggled to get the strike in the closing overs and was left stranded one short. The Sun
  • Some Britons arriving at foreign airports to catch flights back to the UK were left stranded and others scrambled to book with other airlines.
  • Some carriers negotiate reciprocal, or "interline," agreements with one another - to help in a pinch, essentially - and those that do are less likely to ask stranded travelers to pay more than their original ticket price for a replacement flight, because interline agreements usually involve the airline in need of help compensating the one that helps it, said Kate Hanni, founder and executive director of California-based SplicedFeed
  • And the food service workers who scoured the commercial kitchens improvising communal meals for hundreds of those stranded.
  • SIR - I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the young couple who came to my aid on Friday evening when I was stranded in my car in a flood near Carleton.
  • He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
  • Immunogold labeling allowed colocalization of hydrogenase and double-stranded DNA in the hydrogenosomes of the ciliate.
  • Yesterday rescuers were still dealing with the aftermath of the disaster which saw hundreds of rail and bus services cancelled and thousands of cars stranded. Times, Sunday Times
  • The way people across the district were left stranded is totally despicable.
  • The earliest example of European poetry about a stranded whale is an Anglo-Saxon inscription on a whale bone casket of about 700 AD.
  • Depending on the model, the complaints range from faulty key fobs and leaky sunroofs to balky electronics that leave drivers and their passengers stranded.
  • As the water on the road was knee-deep, engines of several light vehicles conked out and commuters were stranded, blocking the movement of heavy vehicles.
  • The campaign had some of the same characteristics as the remarkable group effort that brought home the stranded astronauts of Apollo 13.
  • He and 15 neighbors were stranded at his house for two days after the city's levees broke.
  • The strike left hundreds of tourists stranded at the airport.
  • Once there, they intend to complete their journey, leaving the dollar-tribe to rot on their stranded carcass of a ship.
  • Even as they killed them to extinction, the sea cows drifted and swam in arctic waters unafraid of the stranded men. Archive 2007-07-01
  • The teenagers had become stranded by the incoming tides and were brought into shore safe and well at about noon yesterday.
  • several stranded fish in a tide pool
  • In the summer it was a regular occurrence for helicopters to be called out to lift off stranded motorists. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton, and his fifteen hundred pounds had exhausted his emergency fund and left him stranded at the Tantalus point where each day he saw the fresh-whipsawed boats departing for Dawson. THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
  • Stranded in the desert with no car or cash, a spoiled student on his way home for Christmas learns a thing or two about the true spirit of the season.
  • We were stranded at Heathrow Airport for hours until the airline found some ash hole to fly through.
  • The purity of the double-stranded oligonucleotides was confirmed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
  • Here's what happened: I was stranded downtown after work on a recent Wednesday because my carpool home had fallen through.
  • The workers were left stranded on Saturday after their employer told them his boat had broken down and was unable to collect them.
  • New inflows will join large numbers of long-staying refugees, many stranded for over a decade.
  • Wired. com marks Presidents Day weekend with brief vignettes of three of our techiest presidents: Washington steered national policy toward an embrace of science, Jefferson made a significant contribution to paleontology, and Lincoln devised and patented a gimmick for lifting stranded boats. Wired Top Stories
  • After days of begging for help, many citizens stranded in evacuation shelters near the Fukushima plant were bused to Tokyo for refuge.
  • The native double stranded DNA molecule is known to be a poor immunogen whose immunogenic form has not yet been identified.
  • They developed a new way to sequence single-stranded DNA by running it through a protein nanopore.
  • Both Mr and Mrs Hayhurst were stranded on the roof as the river continued to rise rapidly.
  • Motorists, who were left stranded after their cars struck a monster pothole, are demanding to know why the council did not issue warnings.
  • Some victims were stranded with a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, with nowhere to escape being crushed and trampled. The Sun
  • Thousands of motorists were left stranded in traffic chaos yesterday when a heath fire forced one of Britain's busiest motorways to close.
  • RNAa can be achieved with double-stranded RNAs, called "antigene RNAs" or "agRNAs," that target non-coding RNA transcripts complementary to gene promoters, and represents a new approach for RNA therapeutics with gene activation. Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Often she finds herself stranded, with no staff to help her on and off, or to move between the platforms and the taxi rank. Times, Sunday Times
  • And that was before this recent mess that stranded or "inconvenienced" an estimate 250,000 passengers - so far. Lloyd Garver: The Airline Mess
  • Originally a TV show by Sid and Marty Croft (of H. R. Puffenstuff and The Donny & Marie Show fame) in 1974, a family of three is stranded in time in a world of dinosaurs, apemen and sleestaks (froggy bad guys). The Land of the Lost...again
  • Some people stranded on a garage roof were rescued by boat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The maximum length of the unpaired single-stranded DNA at a break is on the order of one helical turn of double-stranded DNA, i.e., 10 bases.
  • People and uprooted trees were carried out to sea, while stingrays and sharks were left stranded in fields and parking lots.
  • Shouting, as usual, Hammond, who makes up for his petiteness by shouting louder than anyone else declared, "This can't be right, these stranded tourists have got better story lines than us TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
  • Upper right, virus particle enters cell followed by uncoating and release of positive-stranded HCV RNA genome. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The Australian Outback can be a deadly place to be stranded. The Sun
  • West Nile virus is a single-stranded RNA flavivirus with antigenic similarities to Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis viruses.
  • He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
  • However, my recent trip to the aquarium left me stranded in the gift store with a complimentary cultured pearl in my hand and a bad taste in my mouth.
  • When he returned the vehicle was stranded by the incoming tide. The Sun
  • Ten people find themselves stranded at an old, grungy motel.
  • If they are left stranded, they are likely to die within a month.
  • Passengers were stranded aboard the train for more than three hours while a diesel engine was brought to pull the sleeper into Preston Station.
  • He left me stranded in town with no car and no money for a bus.
  • One of the most frustrating experiences in life is to be stranded without proper tools.
  • And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche de mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks. THE HEATHEN
  • A police patrol car also became a casualty after officers attempted to help stranded motorists.
  • The strike left hundreds of tourists stranded at the airport.
  • Beckett allowed seven hits but struck out nine and stranded six runners in scoring position.
  • Yamoto, who speaks with a suspiciously western Canadian accent, laments the unfortunate set of circumstances that stranded the group in Canada.
  • Last October a pod of pilot whales were in danger of becoming stranded in the same sea loch. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his family were left stranded after the airline said he could not fly despite having a return ticket. The Sun
  • Thirteen passengers were left stranded in Minorca when their plane flew back to Leeds Bradford Airport on Friday.
  • Some scientists suspect the mammal, believed to be a rare female sei whale, became stranded and died after an abnormally high tide carried it to a salt marsh. Whale Found Beached In Grassy England Field (VIDEO)
  • When these working-class allies tried to send a delegation to the capital, hostile railway workers shunted their train into a siding and left them stranded.
  • When the 2010 Chilean tsunami arrived in California, people in Santa Monica Beach were mesmerized by the rapid withdrawal of the shoreline and went out to gawk at stranded marine life.

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