Word: absorber
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...causes Alzheimer's, and right now they have only intriguing clues. The most popular hypothesis holds that the disease process starts when a protein called beta amyloid accumulates outside nerve cells, forming the deposits known as plaques. Among other things, plaques appear to impair the ability of neurons to absorb glucose from the bloodstream, generating an energy crisis inside the cell. A competing hypothesis maintains that Alzheimer's begins not with beta amyloid but with a protein called tau. Abnormal variants of this protein, say scientists, clutter the interiors of neurons with tangled filaments that disrupt cellular metabolism...
...final quote in the article is not so much incorrect as it is unintelligible. The point is: although the 2 1/2 year project to replace our current HOLLIS system will absorb much of the libraries' time and energies, we expect there to be a big payoff in terms of performance and the new services it will provide. More than this we cannot say until a new system has been selected...
...fact, "the Bee is part of the Inter-Club Council," she tells me, and I'm surprised. That the stuffy alumni of Harvard's elite social clubs would absorb a women's group into their ranks is a sign of progress, I decide...
...that temperature, Taborsky concluded, the small pockets in the clay that absorb calcium close down while the ones that accept ammonia remain open. By spring 1988, he had gathered enough data to make his case to Carnahan and a Florida Progress representative, who told him that his idea could be "worth millions...
With King of the Hill, Judge's affinity has won out. Here he depicts low-rent suburbia far less brutally than he has with Beavis & Butt-head, a show set in a vast nowhere starring two cretins who do nothing, absorb nothing and stand for even less. No one on King of the Hill is skewered as savagely as educated elitists, whom Judge characterizes as blind bubbleheads incapable of seeing the world beyond their screen savers...