Giving birth, like the first days of a company, is often remembered through rose-colored glasses.

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S. aureus is a small, gold-colored bacteria that is often among the first to out-mutate antibiotics designed to kill it.

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An obvious source of inspiration lies in 17th- and 18th-century European botanical prints, which are often bizarre and stylized but always highly colored.

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His act of thinking is often punctuated by the clicks of three different-colored ballpoint pens that he rotates through his fingers.

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Arp was making sprightly geometric and free-form collages and reliefs, often composed by games of chance for example, shapes in colored paper dropped onto sheets of white paper and glued down more or less where they fell.

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Though their bodies remain well covered by billowing abayas, the camel-hump girls are often heavily made-up and have a reputation for tottering around the shopping malls in brightly colored high heels.

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Often, the people injured in a disaster are literally color-coded by medical workers with colored tags, says Carl Ramsay, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, who has cared for people after an earthquake, airplane crashes, and large-scale fires.

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