Word: elasticizing
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After medic Billie Grimes stopped the bleeding with an elastic cord, I was rushed in the humvee to a nearby brigade clinic and then medevacked to a U.S. Army hospital elsewhere in Baghdad for surgery to clean what was left of my arm and the shrapnel wounds in my right...
(3 of 3) But Afghan forces are hardly ready to take up the slack. Retired U.S. General Barry McCaffrey, after an inspection trip in June, calls the Afghan army "miserably under-resourced," with "no mortars, few machine guns, no grenade machine guns and no artillery. Many soldiers and police have...
The good news for all sides is that over the course of this long argument, researchers have learned more about how stem cells work, and the science has outrun the politics. Adult cells, such as those found in bone marrow, were thought to be less valuable than embryonic cells, which...
I point that out not to be rude--although I admit it is kind of rude--but because those are the writers that people--people who think about such things, anyway--think of as the young American novelists. And even by the notoriously elastic standards of the literary world--the...
In a two-volume report published in 1908, Lawson and his team went on to elaborate a new model of earthquake formation--the elastic-rebound theory--that holds up to this day. For years, they correctly surmised, stress had been ratcheting up along the San Andreas until finally it became...