Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million filtration units called nephrons. Each nephron is made up of a tuft of microscopic blood vessels, called a glomerulus, and each of these has a minute tubule at tached (see diagram, right). When blood flows into the glomeruli and around the tubules, one-fifth of its water content is led aside for finer filtration. One hundredth part of this is extracted and passes eventually to the bladder...
...camel's thirst-quenching secret remained hidden. Then, a young Israeli veterinarian went to work on the ship of the desert. The answer, says Dr. Kalman Perk, 34, of Rehovot's Hebrew University, is in the camel's bloodstream. The plasma has an extraordinary high content of a kind of albumin, which enables the blood to retain its water and maintain its volume and fluidity even when the water in the camel's tissues has been markedly depleted...
...insulates it against external temperatures, and it can withstand body temperatures of up to 104.9°F. before its sweat glands begin to function. As the camel is cooled by its evaporating sweat, it can lose up to 30% of its total body weight without harm because the water content in the blood plasma stays close to normal, permitting the blood to circulate freely. Camels loping in after a two-week journey across the sands are often in an extremely desiccated condition; once the thirsty animals reach water they may drink as much as 30 gallons in ten minutes...
Since they could not fault Brodsky on the content of his poetry, the druzhinniki invoked that convenient Catch 22 of Soviet law: "parasitism." The case against Brodsky last February charged him with being "a pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers" whose "earnings were casual, which shows that he did not fulfill the most important constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of the motherland...
...city room of Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun (Rising Sun Newspaper) have always enjoyed a welcome insulation from meddling. Co-Founder Ryohei Murayama believed firmly that the editorial content of his paper belonged to the editors alone, and with that formula he built the paper into the largest in Japan (present circ. 4,700,000). Before he joined his ancestors in 1933, Murayama tried to make sure that his no-meddling policy would survive: he vested control of the paper in a board of directors drawn from Asahi's ranks. But that same year meddling began. Although Asahi...