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...person finds different things difficult," Stanley says of the challenge of handling the switches, knobs and screens in front of him and the responsibility for a hundred lives behind. "For some it will be memory, for others it will be handling skill. I had never driven a car, so motor skills - handling skills - were not very good. The first landing [of a propeller plane] was hard, but after practice...
...More attractive to ADUG, perhaps: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including Abu Dhabi, are eager to raise their sporting profile, says Simon Chadwick, a professor of sport business strategy and marketing at Coventry Business School. Abu Dhabi will host its first ever Formula One motor race next year, and Dubai even considered bidding to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Snapping up Manchester City, then, is another way of "announcing your presence to the world," Chadwick says, of "establishing relationships with key decision makers in football, demonstrating they have the confidence and expertise and have the money to spend." ADUG...
...Producing many of the Stax hits of the '60s, Hayes and Porter helped define that studio's sound, which dispensed with the pop craftsmanship of Stax's main rival Motown Records and, taking inspiration from James Brown's mid-'60s ravers, revved up the motor of testosterone. For Sam & Dave they wrote the hits Hold On, I'm Coming and Soul Man. Both tunes are declarations of sexual prowess ready to explode. Get with the program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul...
...theory about the cause of ALS is that motor nerves die after exposure to a toxic compound released by other nerve cells in the spinal cord. The Harvard and Columbia groups are hoping to test that idea in the lab: if the cells in culture release the same agent, then finding drug compounds that block the damaging effects of the toxin could preserve neurons and hold off the paralyzing effects of the disease...
...same genetic makeup as do the ALS patients, and they are the very cells that are affected by the disease." said Columbia professor Christopher Henderson, referring to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative often called Lou Gehrig's Disease. "This provides us with the opportunity...to study these motor neurons derived from the ALS cells...