Word: digestible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knee injury to bench Galieva, made a quick substitution and, lo, Gutsu was in. Sure enough, she won the gold. Now Gutsu's triumph, impressive as it was, will always carry a caveat -- "Remember? She didn't even qualify for the all-around." And Galieva will have to digest the bitter lesson that fairness and feelings count for nothing in gymnastics; all that matters is winning...
...capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation. Up the other goes a drop of her victim's blood. In less than a minute, she makes her getaway. She finds a place to rest and digest her vampire's repast, while her victim is left to scratch the welt that soon forms in allergic reaction to her ghoulish drool...
...exercise works. By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest...
...postgame interview passes without a shot of the MVP taking a sip from a paper cup labeled "Gatorade," which is, after all, the official sports drink of major league baseball, the N.F.L., the N.B.A. and the National Hockey League. "Gatorade defines the category," says Jesse Meyers, publisher of Beverage Digest, an industry trade publication based in Old Greenwich, Conn. "There is not a beverage category in any country in the world that is so dominated by one producer...
...research journal Science, Michigan's Yves Poirier and his colleagues capitalized on the environmental know-how of a select group of bacteria. In much the same way that humans store excess nutrients as fat, these germs turn sugar into the plastic molecule polyhydroxybutyrate, or PHB. They can also digest the polymer, which means it is biodegradable...