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...past 20 years. Today scientists have a fair idea of what happens physiologically when, for example, the big toe collides with a large, solid object. Not surprisingly, the pain message originates at the point of contact (see diagram). It begins with the release of a number of potent chemicals that are normally stored in or near nerve endings for use on just such clumsy occasions. Among these chemicals are the mysterious substance P (for pain), prostaglandins and bradykinin, probably the most painful substance known to man-just a tiny amount inserted under the skin with a needle causes excruciating pain...
...says Kathleen Foley, chief of the pain service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Foley, who has testified against the bill, challenges many of Quattlebaum's claims. While heroin is more soluble than morphine, she says, it is somewhat less potent than Dilaudid, a synthetic opiate already on the U.S. market. Nor is heroin likely to benefit patients who are allergic to morphine or are bothered by its side effects: new research by Cornell Pharmacologist Charles Inturrisi shows that once heroin enters the body, it is rapidly converted into morphine...
...scientist than a game-show host. But he is a far more amusing figure. He is, in fact, some ultimate Yuppie, seemingly stoned on fern-bar manners, mores and folk wisdom. His utter imperviousness to anything that cannot be comprehended in those basic materialist terms is finally a more potent weapon than all the atomic gadgetry he and his friends carry into their battles with the forces of darkness...
...forth the unsettled and quite neurotic aspects of Sally all throughout the show. While we cannot be made to admire Sally or pass over her lack of vision and strength, Halpern captures an essential sweetness and allurement. Halpern's Sally and Hummel's Cliff manage to sustain the convincingly potent magnetism of their first meeting. But even so, some plot turns, like their decision to get married, seem to come too suddenly. When Cliff realizes that he has been "sleepwalking" as the Nazis rise and must now wake up. Hummel communicates a freshness and intelligence. Cliff's refusals, though...
...save by Smith ignited the Islanders and Bossy, their most potent weapon, collected the decisive goal at 16:40. Defenseman Ken Morrow penetrated deep into the Canadiens' zone and, as he was knocked to the ice, backhanded a feed in front of the net to Bossy...