Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face it: At Harvard all of us are part of America's elite. But to be atop that pile, well...that's something special...
...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...
...taught researchers much of what they know about cell adhesion and wound healing. Brooke first came to doctors' attention as an infant, when her umbilicus and teething sores failed to close and became infected. Strangely, Brooke's lesions contained no pus -- the carcasses of millions of white cells that pile up at infection sites -- even though her bloodstream was teeming with infection-fighting white cells, or leukocytes...
...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...