Word: chews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring what one of our colleagues, Paul Lawrence, long ago called 'chunks of reality' into the classroom chew on them, pull at them and understand what's going on. We can do that to a level of depth, reality and nuance that simply was not possible with the paper cases," Clark says...
...fractured. The sheer force of the blow kills some nerves instantly. Then the compression causes electrical impulses traveling through nerve cells in the area to go haywire, and the overload causes many neurons to kill themselves. The dying nerve cells leak calcium, which attracts enzymes to the area that chew on the tissues. The by-products are free radicals, unstable compounds that scavenge oxygen from healthy cells, often destroying them. As these cells die, they trigger a secondary wave of destruction that sweeps from the injured area and radiates outward. Blood flow to the central nervous system is slowed, immune...
...even chew the fat. The mere taste of FATTY FOOD--even if it isn't swallowed--promotes a surge in the concentration of fat in the blood. One explanation: receptors in the mouth may detect the chemical properties of food and cause the body to react...
Fourth, Harvard Dining Services really needs to decide how much meals cost them to provide. Here's an interesting piece of gristle to chew on: The dining halls charge visitors nine dollars per dinner. Now, a recent issue of Nutrition Bites (you know, those triangular fonts of information on the tables) reminded us that last year Harvard Dining ran a program where students agreed to give up their dinners in exchange for a meal of rice and beans. The money saved went to charity...
...diversity of the council. We applaud the PUCC's advocacy of greater action, its rhetoric of making the council a center of student activism. But in its nominal attempt at real reform, it undermines one of its own goals and bites off a bit more than it can chew at this point in its young and foolish life...