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...movement of tendons over bony projections within the joint. A trio of British researchers has now solved this minor medical mystery. According to Anthony Unsworth, Duncan Dowson and Verna Wright of the University of Leeds, knuckle noise results from the explosion of gas bubbles in the synovial fluid that fills the joint...
...series of papers published recently in the scientific journal Nature, they report that aspirin and its close pharmaceutical relatives tend to halt the production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
...most famously Hair, emerges in Lenny as one of the top directors of the U.S. theater. He manages to meld Bruce's sleazy world of one-night stands, his marital hopes and horrors, his helpless, raging entanglement in the courts, and even his vaulting fantasies into a fluid continuum up, down and around the multilevel stage. Lenny was a microphone man; mikes perpetually cut in and out, held and handled as integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard...
Elon uneasily savors the saying of the founding fathers: "We came to rebuild the land and to be rebuilt by it." But what the result has been, Elon is not sure. Like an American, he likes to reassure himself that "everything is still fluid." But also like an American, he realizes that the question is no longer: Can his people survive their enemies? The question is: Can they survive themselves...
More important, though, Nixon and Kissinger shared a vital number of deeply-held concerns. They were very much preoccupied with the strength and power of the Presidency, with the need to maintain one's independence and maneuverability in a politically fluid world. Most of the others in Nixon's retinue were men of politics, men who could be restrained by adverse domestic feeling or be deterred from a policy that seemed to make no material sense. But Nixon-a President determined to behave in a Presidential way-and Kissinger the great power diplomat would brook no compromise. And Nixon...