Word: blood
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...first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety. Suffice it to say, it's like nothing I've read since...
...biogas - energy created from the fermentation of human waste - which can be used for electricity and cooking fires, and helps slow the deforestation ravaging her country. In Japan, George recounts the history of Toto, maker of the world's most advanced toilets, which can do everything including check your blood pressure - and wonders why they never caught on in the West...
...reap the worst of this whirlwind. The Oshawa, Ont.-based car company, which takes its marching orders from Detroit, expects to shed another 4,000 jobs with planned closures of a truck and transmission plant. This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt betrayed," says Chris Buckley, president of Canadian Auto Workers local 222, whose membership at GM Canada's assembly complex on Lake Ontario includes workers from the surplus truck plant. "It's never been this bad. We're on the verge of closing...
...Addressing a weekly clinic for “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Medicine,” a required introductory course for first-year medical and dental students, Medical School professor Paul G. G. Richardson was accompanied by a patient diagnosed with myeloma, a potentially deadly blood cancer...
...Kahn began studying diabetes in 1970, when he started a fellowship at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). When Kahn began his research, it was known that insulin regulated blood sugar by binding to a specific receptor on cells. But Kahn’s lab was the first to discover the mechanism of this activation, which involves the addition of a phosphate molecule to the amino acid tyrosine...