Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This Saturday, Harvard Square will host a mini-festival of arts-related demonstrations, performances, and workshops, all presented under the aegis of "Contemporary Arts Day," a joint project of the American Repertory Theatre, the Institute for Contemporary. Boston Musica Viva and Dance Umbrella. These are the cream of local arts institutions, and between them they cover virtually every medium, so there should be something to please every taste...
...evening began with performances by Drury and Hodgkinson, which were followed by a joint performance by Vosgerchian and Levin of "Eight Variations on an Original Theme" in A-flat major...
...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...
...night's sleep. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delineated the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome in 1994, however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients are given medications to stabilize their blood pressure, their symptoms subside...
...room rebuked him. As Dole was struggling to extricate himself, his aides hustled him away. But aware of how it would look if he ended this rare ghetto visit without pressing the flesh, Dole hopped out of the car and strode across the street into a local rib joint. The customers, most of them unemployed black men, answered his congenial banter with hard-eyed stares. Not five minutes later, his face fixed in a pained smile, Dole retreated to his motorcade. As he crossed what must have seemed like miles of inner-city street, he saw one smiling dark face...