Word: fingers
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...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center performed the first gene therapy on a woman with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic disease caused by the immune system's running amuck and attacking the body's connective tissue. Their strategy was to expose cells in the swollen tissue lining their patient's finger joints to genetically engineered viruses. These viruses carried a gene responsible for a protein that blocks the action of interleukin-1, a substance that stimulates immune-system activity. Without that stimulation, the doctors hope, the immune system will halt its assault on the joint linings...
...fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...
...screen lately, in Heat and City Hall, Pacino has grown more manic and mannerist. The finger snapping, the zany intensity of his stare and the sudden, ferocious barks are weirdly suggestive of the older, crabby, haunted Jerry Lewis. As Pacino soars into camp, one wonders: Is he a failed great actor or a great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms...
...tried using it that way, it made my decubitus wound much worse. So one of my humiliations is that my bed is also a bathroom. You're given a suppository and what is called a dig-stim, for digital stimulation, which means that a nurse literally puts her finger up in there to make it come out. If that doesn't work, they give you a Fleet enema. I go through that every night...
Marcel Dadi, a passenger aboard Flight 800, was one of the greatest "finger-style" guitar players in the world, a prolific songwriter, an enthusiastic performer with a wonderful sense of humor and an international ambassador of the Travis-Atkins style of playing. He had been in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Your article naming Dadi "the French 'flat-picking guitarist' " is tantamount to calling Babe Ruth one of the all-time great Brooklyn Dodgers. Finger-style players create a sound so different from that produced by flat pickers that to mistake...