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...Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby fat stored in the body can be withdrawn and utilized by the body as energy. Excess FMS is excreted in the urine...
Like most shows on the first leg of the road, this one carries excess baggage. Several of Drake's songs--"Just for Today," "In Vino Veritas," "Let Me Lead the Way," "The Things We Think We Are," and "The Parable of the Monkey"--have nothing going for them and should be ditched on that count. The first is corny, the second ludicrous, the third irrelevant, the fourth bad, and the fifth incomprehensible. By way of compensation, I'd suggest that if ever a name deserved to light a lyric, "Ftatateeta" does; that Caesar and Rufio might voice their contradictory opinions...
...differentiated. Ken Parker is an amusingly scared Menagerie Keeper. Rex Everhart, wielding a billy-club, is the Editor in charge of all the gladiators, of whom the near-naked Retiarius (Harold Miller) and armored Secutor (DeVeren Bookwalter) go through their paces commendably, and lend color to the spectacle (an excess of color is provided by Jane Greenwood's costumes for many of the Christians, which are far too gaudy and even psychedelic...
When a pulse of electricity is fired through the tube, it gives off a brief, intense flash of light. Inside the ruby rod, the chromium atoms are highly excited by the light flash; their electrons temporarily absorb excess energy. Then, as the electrons fall back toward their normal energy levels, each emits a photon. Some of the photons pass through the transparent walls of the ruby rod and are lost. But many hit the mirrors at either end of the rod and are reflected back to the opposite mirror. As they bounce back and forth along the rod, they stimulate...
Sometimes he spoke with an excess of counterpoise. In St. Paul, he told an air-pollution conference that automobiles "are choking our cities and polluting our air" - but not before he had lavished praise upon the auto industry...