Word: friction
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...agencies about the two peroxide-based liquid explosives that could be used in a future attack against the U.S. - triacetone triperoxide (TATP) or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD). The report describes how a terrorist would assemble bombs with these chemicals. Peroxide-based liquid explosives "are sensitive to heat, shock, and friction, can be initiated simply with fire or electrical charge, and can also be used to produce improvised detonators," the report states. "For example, TATP or HMTD may be placed in a tube or syringe body in contact with a bare bulb filament, such as that obtained from inside a Christmas...
...owner of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, a furniture manufacturer with revenues of more than $100 million a year. Both owners are gay, and although the factory is located in Taylorsville, N.C., a small, conservative city ("there are 14 traffic lights and 135 churches," jokes Gold), there has been little friction with employees. It's not a mystery to Gold: "We pay better than anyone [else] in the area, with better benefits." There have been small problems along the way, says Gold. "There have definitely been times that I've heard about when people haven't come to work...
...Friction between patients and their nurses may also account for the impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places...
...general," says psychologist Daniel Shaw of the University of Pittsburgh, "parents serve the same big-picture role as doctors on grand rounds. Siblings are like the nurses on the ward. They're there every day." All that proximity breeds an awful lot of intimacy--and an awful lot of friction...
...DeQuervains is the most common cause of pain on the thumb-side of the wrist. It's a tendon irritation caused by friction. If it continues to be a problem despite pills, therapy, splints and shots there is a small and simple surgical procedure that cures it. I do the operation under local anesthesia, and because there's a tourniquet with a timer on during the case I can tell you how long it takes: about ten minutes. She understood the explanation and opted for the surgery. Then we went next door...