Word: buildups
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Last week's giant was the most unexpected discovery yet. Conventional theory suggests that it must have formed like a star, from a collapsing cloud of interstellar gas. Its smaller companion, only seven times Jupiter's mass, is almost certainly a planet, formed by the buildup of gas and dust left over from a star's formation. Yet the fact that these two orbs are so close together suggests to some theorists that they must have formed together--so maybe the bigger one is a planet after...
Alzheimer's disease, many experts are all but convinced, starts with the abnormal buildup of a protein known as beta amyloid. The chief constituent of the scarlike plaques found in the brain of Alzheimer's patients, beta amyloid is made by nerve cells when beta and gamma secretase execute a one-two snip that cuts a larger precursor protein into a shorter fragment. Sometimes the fragment is 40 units long, sometimes 42. The slightly longer variant, scientists have found, is directly toxic to nerve cells. Among other things, it appears to stimulate the release of oxygen free radicals, thereby setting...
...advance about Pearl Harbor? You think those Sacco and Vanzetti guys got what they deserved? Did John F. Kennedy in the White House take his orders directly from the Pope of Rome? Would you say that Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative unwisely ignores foresters' concerns about fuel load buildup and other issues of sound forest management? With Billy Crystal out, should Whoopi Goldberg be given another shot at the Academy Awards if she promises not to do kakaweewee jokes? Is it sexist for a man to open a car door for a woman? Would it have been a good...
...direct questioning session also touched on a variety of chad issues: Chad buildup, chad depletion, dangling chad, chad evacuation...
...ruckus broke out, Phil Beck stormed forward and asked to read the document, which Zack grudgingly permitted him to hold. The surprise statement was allowed - and Zack got Ahmann to admit that his device can lead to unreadable votes due to chad buildup, dangling chads and even rubber problems...