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...blood sugar within a narrow range (60 mg to 120 mg per deciliter of blood), those with diabetes frequently boast levels three times as high. Just how excess sugar causes damage remains a topic of debate. One plausible mechanism has been suggested by Dr. Michael Brownlee, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Glucose, Brownlee observes, is chemically active, combining with proteins in the blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like a splinter lodged in a foot, this superglue is a source of constant...
Pound has verified a prediction of Einstein'stheory of relativity and performed the firstexperiments detecting nuclear magnetic resonance,a field with wide-ranging medical applications. Heis credited with aiding in the development of themodern radar
...scientific theorist is not to be envied," Einstein said in a 1922 lecture. "For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an inexorable and not very friendly judge of his work...
...Albert Einstein was, in the last years of his life, a very frustrated man. Try as he might, the scientific genius simply could not devise a unified, consistent mathematical principle to explain the physical universe. He died in 1955, still working on the same problem...
Each of the three operas, brilliantly staged by German director and designer Achim Freyer, offers a penetrating portrait of a man whose life changed the ways in which humanity looks at the world: Einstein, the scientist and amateur musician; Gandhi, the inspirational political leader (Satyagraha was the term for his nonviolent resistance movement); and Akhnaten, the putatively monotheistic Pharaoh. Each work is linked musically as well, with motifs from Einstein popping up in the later operas...