Word: laval
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...Charles Morin, a professor of psychology at Laval University in Quebec, the J.A.M.A. study is the latest in a series of sleep experiments stretching back 50 years. Much remains mysterious. Despite thousands of hours measuring the brain waves of unconscious subjects, monitoring their breathing and noting the effects of sleep deprivation, scientists still don't know the answers to some of the most basic questions, like why we need to sleep in the first place. That hasn't stopped some wild ideas from gaining popularity. In December, Pocket Books paid a whopping $200,000 advance...
...framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve. "I'm a great believer in the cells. They're not just lying there, looking stupidly at each other," says Francois Auger, an infectious-disease specialist and builder of artificial blood vessels at Laval University in Quebec City. "They will do the work for you if you treat them right...
...grown a tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then he removes the tube and seeds the inside with lining cells, which soon grow together. The vessels have worked well in animal tests, and in the lab have...
...morons, watched by morons and played by morons. A more boring sport is difficult to find. Baseball exemplifies all that is simple, inane and childlike in the minds of Americans. What other sport is egocentric enough to have a World Series without world teams involved? PETER T. LOCHTIE Laval...
...PIERRE LAVAL 1931 Taking charge of a France in the middle of a political crisis...