Word: cores
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...Americans now annually undergo operations known as laminectomies to correct this ailment. The new technique, called chemonucleolysis, may eliminate the need for up to 75% of such surgery. In the hourlong procedure, the surgeon, guided by images on a fluoroscope, inserts a 6-in. needle into the gelatinous core of the disc and injects 1 to 1.5 milliliters (about one-third of a teaspoon) of chymopapain into the disc. Within seconds, the pulpy tissue dissolves, relieving pressure on the nerves...
...suspicious of this and mutters that the intruder could be the devil himself, for all we knew. This point us toward the film's deeper, religious level. Martin is indeed more than a Tartuffe who dispenses hypocritical banalities left and right. Underneath the treacly outside is a hard brimstone core, something profoundly evil When he is finally alone in the house with Patricia, he possesses her in a horribly cold-blooded manner, only to engage in a long heated prayer session with Mrs. Bates an hour later...
...core of the Social Security crisis is not just a temporary accounting problem, or the unwillingness of flint-hearted conservatives in Congress to pay for it, but the long-term demographic impossibility of maintaining Social Security as it is currently conceived. Medical advances have extended the average life span so that more people are retiring than was ever expected. Back when FDR first conceived so Social Security, only one American in 20 was over 65. Now the figure is one in 10, and in 50 years will be one in five...
Henry Ehrenreich, McKay Professor of Applied Physics was named the first Clowes Professor of Science. He currently teaches the core course. "Modern Physics Concepts and Development," and is a private technical consultant to several government agencies and companies...
WASHINGTON--The George Washington (GW) University Board of Trustees, in a decision that came as a surprise to GW students, last moth approved a project to open a Navy Reserve Officers Training Core (ROTC) program on campus...