Word: ear
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...possible to determine who is susceptible. Scientists believe the malady is caused by the body's struggle to adapt to the absence of gravity and to disorienting shifts in body positions. As a result the brain receives conflicting information from the eyes and the inner-ear system, which registers pressure changes and affects balance. Says Dr. Philip Johnson, chief of the medical-research branch of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: "In space you receive a lot of novel input into the brain, which doesn't know how to handle it. We just have to adapt. Some people...
...that he has much to show off about any more. He has failed, miserably, to follow the Success Recipe for Innovators. First, think up a novel idea or approach. Then play it so obnoxiously that people are forced to pay attention. When they have lent at least an ear, introduce more novelty. If you can't think up anything new, get drunk with Brian Eno and find out his ideas. Adam Ant started out on the right track with his first two American albums, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming. On the new disk, however, he slits...
...reprimanded ostensibly for the memo, and asked to resign. Lavelle initially okayed a press release announcing the resignation, but had second thoughts over the weekend and decided that as a presidential appointee she could take her case to the White House. The White House turned a deaf ear, however, and issued a curt statement on Monday that Lavelle was "terminated today at the request of the President." Gorsuch fired several of Lavelle's top aides and put an armed guard in front of her office to prevent her from removing files. "I felt my resignation would be tantamount...
...college sophomore's ear became a temporary roach motel last month when one of the monstrous vermin established residence there and had to be evicted by a doctor at St Luke's Hospital...
...student was sleeping soundly in his Columbia University room when the six legged visitor awoke him. The cockroach travelled so far into his ear that he could not dislodge it, he said. When it moved I was really in bad pain, said the student who asked not to be named...