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Senior Jamie Ames will also be an integral cog in the Crimson offensive machine, bringing his 34 points from last season--good enough for third on the Crimson scoring chart--into this...
...main spiritual cog for the Crimson was senior Steve Kelts, the team captain. Although he wasn't a consistent top performer for the team, finishing in the team's top three only once all season, Kelts brought to the squad a degree of mettle rarely seen on the cross country circuit...
...seemed to have made a difficult transition from cog in the legendary Chicago Democratic machine to politician of the '90s. Not the blow-dried telegenic kind; burly, raspy-voiced Dan Rostenkowski remained a backroom dealmaker to the bitter end. He won vast respect as the Congressman who could + massage the tough bills -- tax reform, maybe health care -- into literally passable form. But, says Chicago political columnist Steve Neal, "he was caught in a sort of time warp," and he is under investigation for allegedly taking perks that were common in the Chicago wards of the 1950s, and even in Congress...
...amino acid for another. The new amino acid will be larger, smaller, stiffer or more elastic than the correct one. In ways radical and subtle, it will affect the shape of the protein and its activity. For if a cell is like a factory, then a protein is a cog in a machine that may have as many as 50 components. "If one of them develops a kink in its structure," says Harris, "then the machine doesn't fit together as well...
...last cog in the victory machine was the goaltending, from junior Matt Camp, who, after sputtering during pre-season practice, has developed into a solid, dependable netminder...