Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
...choreographer, Martins has been quietly moving along classical lines. Not for him the currently fashionable crosscutting of ballet with jazz and modern elements. At his best -- in such works as Les Petits Riens, Calcium Light Night, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, Eight Easy Pieces -- he is an agile craftsman with some surprising moves and a dry, idiosyncratic drollery. At other times he can be boring and even awkward, uneasy in filling the stage and expanding it. Premiering on the same bill as Les Petits Riens was a futile exercise called Ecstatic Orange, set to a bombinating neo-Stravinsky score...
Some doctors, after diagnosing ischemia, prescribe nitroglycerin, calcium blockers and other drugs that relax constricted arteries or slow the heart rate. Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...
...technique, called balloon valvuloplasty, has been shown to be effective in opening up heart valves that are narrowed by scarring or calcium buildups. A similar procedure, called balloon angioplasty, is often used to clean out clogged arteries...
Wacker also says that doctors occasionally do not see fractures on X-rays if the fractures are very slight, but that as the break heals, calcium forms over the break and reveals the fracture more plainly. This explains why one doctor might miss a fracture, whereas another doctor, who sees a patient a while later, may tell the patient that he has been walking around with a broken limb for a while...