Word: presbyterianism
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...messages that are traded between bones, muscles and other parts of the body and play a key role in keeping joints healthy. "Ultimately, we think it's the biochemical approach that's going to solve the riddle of arthritis," says Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop, an orthopedic surgeon at the Rush--Presbyterian--St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. "Someday you may pop a pill and your cartilage will continue to grow, but that's 10 years away--at least...
...here comes the interesting part," says Dr. Klaus Kuettner, professor of biochemistry at Rush--Presbyterian--St. Luke's. "The ankle joint responds better than the knee joint to osteogenic proteins." Is that why the ankle rarely gets osteoarthritis? "We don't know," says Kuettner, "but it's a hint in that direction...
Johnny Knoxville stumbles into the Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., shivering and bleeding from his head, woozy with a concussion--but the staff just laughs at him. "Hey, it's Johnny Knoxville!" yells a male nurse. "A stunt must have gone bad, huh?" Knoxville has a blood-soaked gauze tourniquet wrapped around the top of his head and is wearing a pink bathrobe; he looks like a cross-dressing Civil War re-enactor. He needs half a dozen or so stitches to the back of his scalp but decides to leave the hospital when the doctors refuse...
...short, pudgy Musharraf, who was nicknamed Gola, or ball, finding a similar avenue for achievement would prove more challenging. At Forman Christian College, a Presbyterian boarding school in Lahore, Musharraf found his metier: competitive athletics. If his brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would prove himself on the playing fields. Nasrullah Khan, a schoolmate who now heads his alma mater's botany department, remembers Musharraf entering a bodybuilding competition in his freshman year in which students struck poses before a panel of teachers in the gymnasium. Gola's baby fat had melted away; he took third...
...Michelle Warren, a professor of medicine at New York Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City--and a member of the Council for Women's Nutrition Solutions, which is sponsored by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association--expresses concern about calcium deficiency connected with a vegan diet: "The most serious consequences are low bone mass and osteoporosis. That is a permanent condition." Warren says that in her practice, she has seen young vegetarians with irregular periods and loss of hair. "And there's a peculiar color, a yellow tinge to the skin," that occurs in people...