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...mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever in Haiti and suffered severe headaches, chills, vomiting and muscle cramps. Erlich stayed home in Oakland, Calif. for the first two weeks of school. “It’s not treatable, so you just kind of have to grin and bear it,” he says. “It’s such a rare disease, no one knew what the hell I was talking about. They thought I had the Black Death.” But they lined up to buy curly fries anyway...
...Graham-Felsen ’03. “She ends up saying things that are so silly and ridiculous, but they’re usually brilliant anyway. I believe her when she says she doesn’t do things to shock. She just can’t bear to do things that are boring...
...like a hamster; I just can’t bear to part with them,” adds Pintar, who now keeps roughly 300 books in his Lowell House dorm room...
That's simple enough. Now for the first wrinkle. "It appears that not all cartilage is created equal," says Dr. Roland Moskowitz, president of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. Ankles, for example, bear the same heavy loads as knees and hips. Yet most people, unless they're ballet dancers, don't get osteoarthritis of the ankle. Similar discrepancies show up in non-weight-bearing joints as well. The wrist, for example, is much less prone to osteoarthritis than the joint at the base of the thumb...
...could be that ankles and wrists have some mechanical advantage that protects them from osteoarthritis. But preliminary evidence suggests that the real advantage, at least for ankles, is biochemical; that there's something in their composition that allows them to bear greater loads and respond to changes in the joint without breaking down...