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...continuous running in a museum. At any given time, quite a few of the pieces are not working, and since even the ones that are have lengthy delays between cycles, the viewer spends a lot of time wondering when, if at all, something is going to happen. Then a cam turns, and neat little linkages make a crescent of feathers coquettishly unfurl or propel a row of knives, with sinister sexual intent, into a corresponding row of shaving brushes...
Kacy Ray and Fric Simpson, two 20-year old Miami Springs residents who drove thirty hours and spent $230 to see the brief ceremony including a $90 speeding ticket and a $60 cam-corder battery, were even more enthusiastic...
...Rock, as well as the Boston Phoenix posse, looking very hip and in-the-know (I have to say this. I work for them); club warlord Pat Lyons (the emperor of Lansdowne Street), Don Law (the Godfather of Boston booking), members of Aerosmith, Patriot quarterback Scott Zolak, Boston Bruin Cam Neely and Motown records chair Jheryl Busby. A House of Blues executive buttonholes Phoenix arts editor Ted Drodzowski and tells him, "The House of Blues isn't about t-shirts and baseball caps. By the way, let me introduce you to our marketing director...
...victims who make it to the emergency room are revived only to die later. "It seems evolution never intended for someone to be resuscitated after shock," says John Harlan, head of hematology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Harlan and his colleagues hope to outfox evolution with a CAM-blocking drug that keeps white cells from sticking after shock. In a series of animal studies, the drug saved 75% from certain death...
Furthest along of the new adhesion drugs is an "artificial matrix" designed to promote wound healing. Normally, a wound site looks like the Grand Canyon to arriving rescue cells. But this biodegradable gel, produced by Telios Pharmaceuticals, is peppered with synthesized CAM molecules so that cells arriving at a wound site will have plenty of places to get a grip. With the new gel filling in the gap, repairing wounds, including severe burns or skin ulcers, takes 30% less time and leaves less of a scar, claims company scientific director Michael Pierschbacher...