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...pathway moves sugar from the hollow part of the intestine (lumen) to its lining (epithelium) through the villi. Sugar makes the salt absorption more efficient, and salt promotes water's absorption into the capillary-rich intestinal walls. Intestinal Villi Tiny finger-like projections in the small intestine's lining absorb fluid and nutrients into the blood through the capillary-rich layer beneath the epithelium. From there, water is carried away in blood to other parts of the body where it is needed, correcting the imbalance and rehydrating the victim. Deaths Worldwide there are 1.9 million deaths in children under...
...Says Ghosh: "First, where are they going to find the replacements for the bad cops? Al-Maliki's government has repeatedly said it aims to absorb Shi'ite militias into the security forces. So chances are, one set of rogue policemen will simply be replaced by another. Second, what are they going to do with the cops who will be fired? If they are simply allowed to go back to civilian life, they will rejoin their militias - the only difference is, they won't be in uniform...
...track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes; soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets; underclassmen wanted to absorb a little bit of the drive that made Perez push herself and still manage to serve others, from starting an AIDS ministry at her hometown church as a teenager to donating bone marrow to a stranger just before she headed to Iraq...
...original artistic vision for the project, the whole stands as less than the sum of its parts. Indeed, the full-length film, especially when shown in a theater, lacks the intimacy engendered by the Sackler screening rooms. Furthermore, the original film leaves the audience with little time to absorb or ponder each shorter episode. Each of the ten-minute films requires so much concentration on the part of the viewer that it is taxing, rather than provocative, to watch 12 in succession. The beauty of the films is in the details, which are revealed only upon multiple viewings; while this...
...however, said that Harvard—which habitually ranks among the most selective colleges in the nation—“can absorb that risk more easily than other schools...