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...statement that "Nobody has any use for old orange rinds and apple cores" shows complete ignorance of a recycling alternative known as "composting." Rapidly biodegrading materials such as food and leaves can be put in a compost pile which uses a self heating process to turn this otherwise "garbage" into fertile soil...
...flypaper that attracts platelets, leukocytes and other repair cells to the scene of destruction. Once healing is under way, the signals subside so the vessels lose their stickiness and inflammation recedes. But in a disease like arthritis, the chemical signal is always present. Vessels remain sticky, and repair cells pile up, causing pain, swelling and other symptoms of chronic inflammation...
...highly complete life here." High, for sure. Complete, forget it. Years ago, convinced it was time to be a mother, Murphy nearly persuaded herself to be artificially fertilized by her best pal, Frank. She admits she has sex "about as often as we get a Democrat for President." Her pile-driving perfectionism has often scared suitors off. The figure on the pedestal gets men thinking she's made of marble...
...spoils the lines. Spruced up though they are, these songs sound nasty and urgent as ever. The quality is so direct and uncluttered that it can take you straight back to the days that drummer Sam Myers recalls in the album notes, when he, James and the band would pile into a nine-passenger station wagon with their instruments and head on down the road. You couldn't miss 'em: that black-and-white wagon had a yellow broom painted on the side and a big sign that read THE BROOMDUSTERS, after an early James hit, Dust My Broom. That...
Psychologists and social workers who specialize in treating the gay community see the condition of survivor guilt with growing frequency. "We gay men are living under a pile of corpses that we can't bury emotionally," says Franklin Abbott, a psychotherapist who practices in Atlanta. In extreme cases, he says, when a lover has died, a patient may feel unworthy to be still alive. In his own life, Abbott adds, any word of an acquaintance's early death would have reduced him to tears a few years ago. Now he hears such news matter-of- factly, numbly, without flinching...