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...former employee said specimens were transported to the laboratory from health services offices at the Medical, Law and Business Schools twice daily in brown paper bags that leaked. But federal guidelines require such fluids to be transported in covered, fluid-proof coolers...
Researchers later learned that the level of gamma interferon present in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients skyrocketed just before and during acute attacks. Attention therefore shifted to a cousin molecule, beta interferon, which appears to play the role of inhibiting gamma. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Avertano Noronha and his colleagues demonstrated that beta interferon markedly decreased the activity of white blood cells obtained from multiple sclerosis patients. Beta interferon, they found, not only restrained the proliferation of these cells, it also shut down their production of myelin-destroying compounds...
That epoch has passed. America has entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, of the consultant and subcontractor, of the just-in-time work force -- fluid, flexible, disposable. This is the future. Its message is this: You are on your own. For good (sometimes) and ill (often), the workers of the future will constantly have to sell their skills, invent new relationships with employers who must, themselves, change and adapt constantly in order to survive in a ruthless global market...
...dance itself was sparse and deliberate, concentrating far more on shapes, angles, lines and signs than on any sort of fluid or cohesive movement. Then he spoke. With each word carefully chosen and accompanied by a fittingly provocative gesture, Jones' performance guaranteed a reaction. At the close of this performance, he allowed for a question-and-answer period similar to the one held here on campus. Again, response was respectful--inoffensive and seemingly unoffended. Again, though hidden by that wonderful smile, Jones' disappointment, if not anger, was palpable. Were we, the audience, intimidated, fully accepting, or simply indifferent, he wondered...
Basketball is too fluid a game to make artistic sense in long prose doses, and novelist King generally benches herself after a hyperbolic airball or two. Wisely she sidesteps the artificiality (author's choice, after all) of pivoting her story on winning or losing the big games. Her teenagers of both sexes are believably psychotic, and both locker rooms have the edgy, acrid smell of a zoo just before feeding time...