Word: functions
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...chest, McKinney explained in a raspy voice that he had got out of bed at 1 a.m. -- 19 hours earlier -- and had been struggling to breathe ever since. His blood pressure was an alarming 200 over 140 (120 over 80 is normal). Such severe hypertension can impair lung function and lead to congestive heart failure. McKinney's EKG showed an irregular, rapid heartbeat...
...upon a kind of human brain cell that could be nourished and cultivated. The researchers have kept a laboratory culture of the neurons alive -- and multiplying -- for nearly two years. The new technique, reported last week in Science, should make it easier for scientists to study how the cells function and could someday lead to better treatments for nervous-system injuries and disorders...
...Harvard's interest to give ROTC achance. For all of its faults--and there aremany--it serves an important function and allowsmany students to go to Harvard who wouldn'totherwise and adds to diversity," Carney wrote...
...function of junior tutorials is to prepare students for writing a senior thesis--an original piece of research," says Pilbeam. "Beginning in sophomore year, it [tutorial] introduces them to the structure of creative thinking in their field...
AALARM might well be called an "alliance" rather than an "association" because, in many ways, we will function as an alliance of members from all groups--from across a wide religious and political spectrum. We will poster, meet and publish. We will express ourselves. And we will know that the deafening silence of Harvard's traditionalists will have been broken. E. Adam Webb '93 Kenneth D. DeGiorgio '93 Founders, AALARM