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Kathleen Kaplan, who also works for the university as a campus recruiter, was crossing campus with her boyfriend. Thomas Themes, when the "large rotted tree" growing above a "busy pathway" fell on her, "completely without warning," according to her father, Louis Kaplan...
...shield. But its main insurance is its precise course. Circling the earth once every 103 minutes at an altitude of 560 miles in an orbit that carries it from pole to pole, IRAS roughly follows the line on the earth's surface where day meets night. Along this pathway, the telescope can always face 90° away from the sun, yet catch rays of sunlight on its solar panels to make electricity to power itself...
...restore the pathway, the body musters its repair troops, led by the platelets, tiny disc-shaped particles in the blood that help stop bleeding by promoting clotting. These "little plates" produce a chemical, thromboxane, that constricts blood vessels and signals other platelets to gather round. The platelets also manufacture a chemical that induces the artery's exposed underlying muscle cells to multiply. "If the injury is short-lived," says Russell Ross of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, "the proliferation process is reversible. But if the injury is chronic and repeated in the same sites...
...epidemic, but with only limited success. They have developed effective fungicides, for example, but when these chemicals are injected into the trees, they do not penetrate all the infected parts. Other strategies under test include trimming or fumigating the roots between diseased and nondiseased trees, which can provide another pathway for the infection...
Calvin, University Professor at the University of California at Berkeley who won the Nobel prize in 1951 for his discovery of the biochemical pathway of photosynthesis, spoke before an audience of approximately 200 in his first of three John M. Prather Memorial Lectures at the Geological lecture hall...