Word: bloodstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women in the audience as much as any torch singer ever taunted a man. As Jones puts it: "I'm trying to get across to the audience that I'm alive-all of it, the emotion and the sex and the power, the heartbeat and the bloodstream, are all theirs for the asking...
...garbage dumps, and gets to man either when a tick lands directly on him for a free mean or-more commonly-when a tick nestles in a dog's fur and transfers later to his master. Either way, the tick's bite gets the microbe into the bloodstream, where it multiplies. It soon causes high fever, splitting headache, severe muscle aches and mental confusion. Many other diseases produce similar symptoms, but spotted fever has one distinctive feature: it causes a measles-like rash on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet...
...could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
Another effect of the fresh water, says Benson, is to stimulate the production of a hormone that causes calcium to dissolve out of the bones. The bloodstream is thus supplied with calcium that is no longer available from the calcium carbonate in ocean water-but the cost is high. The salmon's bones soften and virtually dissolve...
...salmon, Benson suggests, may eventually provide researchers with clues to methods for lessening the ravages of aging and with new knowledge of arteriosclerosis, which is caused at least in part by high concentrations of cholesterol in the bloodstream. In the ocean, the salmon has from five to ten times as much cholesterol in its bloodstream as a human can tolerate. "If we find out how the salmon manages to survive with this much cholesterol," says Benson, "perhaps we can help humans survive also...