Word: clumps
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...given way to human landscapes, my mental images of Widener have become daguerrotypes, gauzy and greyscale. A shot of the pillars at night, spilling down and across a frozen Yard. A slow panning of the benefactor's full name carved into stone. The inviting wasteland of snowy steps. A clump of visitors posed longingly or curiously on the very top step, taking photographs of each other...
...that one over there, he points with his cigarette. "Those local ones we call bitches. They always waiting here for short service." Short service? "It's according to how long it takes you to ejaculate," he explains. "We go to the 'bush bedroom' over there [waving at a clump of trees 100 yds. away] or sometimes in the truck. Short service, that costs you 20 rands [$2.84]. They know we drivers always got money...
...politics, 1996 might as well be the last century. The hallowed game plan--hold your base, then hook the swing voters--gets trickier with each election, as the loyal party bases shrink and the big clump of independents grows. But it is especially hard for Gore this year. Gore's base is spoiled and soft after eight years in power--in one poll he drew only 78% of core Democrats. Bush's is so hungry to win it put its differences aside long ago: Bush has the support of 95% of the G.O.P. base, and so has been able...
...that everyone makes beta amyloid throughout his brain and body (more on that later). But people who, for genetic reasons, tend to get Alzheimer's at an early age--in their 40s or 50s--seem to shape the protein into a stickier version that is more likely to clump together. By inhibiting an enzyme called gamma secretase, which facilitates amyloid production, researchers hope to push amyloid production so low that no new plaques will form...
...California in San Francisco--at least not yet. But he has managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...