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A Resume Is Like A Skirt;

a: A resume ~
b: a skirt;

What: "A resume is like a skirt; it needs to be long enough to cover the subject but short enough to be interesting." From, someone somewhere on Linkedin

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Writer: Rich G.
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Sep 25 2011 10:58 AM


Reading This Into That....

a: Dna transcription ~
b: reading a book

What: "Transcription is like reading a book, in which letters are codes for a word and a bunch of words can lead to a sentence. In this case, each letter is a nucleotide and each word is a amino acid, which then can be strung along into a sentence or protein."

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Writer: Manoj Palavalli
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 15 2013 2:02 PM



a: Gene flow ~
b: sale of Harry Potter books

What:

"Gene flow is like tracking the sale of Harry Potter books. If you made a list of all the planes, trains, and automobiles which have shipped them, and all of the web sites and stores which have sold them, you would, at the end of the day, still not have explained a single page without J.K. Rowling. You certainly wouldn't know what a Muggle was."


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Writer: rentafriend2000
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Date: Jan 21 2015 12:47 PM



a: horizontal drilling ~
b: a bendy straw

What:

The pipes used in this type of drilling can actually pivot, somewhat like a bending straw.


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Writer: Not Stated
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Where:
Date: Feb 26 2015 6:17 PM



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