1.   Because every game is a different system, and after playing six or a dozen or a hundred of them, you get good at figuring out new systems.

2.   Having figured out how the protein was put together, the researchers could infer the sequence of chemical letters in the gene that made it.

3.   Instead of first figuring out their sales and subtracting expenses to calculate the profit, such companies work backward.

4.   No wonder everyone in Vevay spends a lot of time figuring out what time everybody else is on.

5.   So can figuring out how to do even the simplest tasks.

6.   The bacteria is now sprayed on crops as a biological insecticide, but researchers have been figuring out ways to get plants themselves to start producing the proteins.

7.   Neff, who received some charitable aid, said she is now figuring out whether she can afford to keep the house she owned with Hein.