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...industry's best sellers are the muscular pickups, vans and sport- utility vehicles that are collectively known as light trucks. Their popularity has been especially good news for Detroit because Japan has few entries in the field. According to Autofacts, light trucks accounted for an astonishing 80% of all vehicle sales growth in the U.S. this year. Even Ford's Taurus, the No. 1 selling car in the U.S., has found itself trailing the Ford F-series and the Chevrolet C/K pickup trucks. Not to be outdone, Chrysler plans to roll out a stand-out-in-a-crowd version...
...Butt-head are both more and less stark. The title characters are animated figures, a pair of teenage slackers (imagine Wayne and Garth desentimentalized), but the live-action Faith No More and Aerosmith videos interlarded with Beavis and Butt-head's pro-and-con commentaries ("For a big muscular dude he sure sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons not just the performers...
Doctors are hopeful that treatment of familial ALS will shed light on the mechanism which causes other forms of Gehrig's Disease. Researchers suspect that the loss of motor neurons and subsequent loss of muscular control which characterizes all forms of the disease is caused by the action of such dangerous free radicals...
...badly. And he'll be able to stand behind multilateral action, which is the Democratic ((Party)) politicians' historic preference. The President's created a political problem for himself, so he's seeking to get out of it politically, with tactics that have the look and feel of real, muscular action. That's the game now. The morality rhetoric -- the Holocaust analogy and all that -- will of course continue as the President rallies the country. But as the underlying reason for action, morality takes a back seat to politics...
This particular form of dystrophin is not usually affected in muscular dystrophy. If the protein were produced in large enough quantities it might be able to take over the functions of abnormal dystrophin present in muscular dystrophy, and partially counteract the effects of the disease...