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Tattoos, pacemakers, and even staples have all been located in or on cadavers, says Elbert Huang, and often prompt students to hypothesize about the person's life. "We made up this story about him," says Sherleen Huang. Her cadaver's tattoo, large size and physical fitness made her think he may have been in the military...
...opposite end of the spectrum are inflammatory diseases like arthritis and multiple sclerosis, in which things have got a bit too sticky. Normally, inflammation is part of the healing process. At a wound site, for example, chemical signals prompt the cells of nearby blood vessels to produce more CAMs, turning the vessels into a kind of biological 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...
...drive them out as soon as the Bosnian question is settled. Either eventuality could spur Albania to intervene. Hungary has massed troops at its southern border to protect 385,000 ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. A Serbian effort to annex parts of Macedonia could prompt a response by Russia, Bulgaria or even Turkey...
...severe sense of economic malaise, Petersonsuggested, could prompt enough unrest--and enoughsupport for Clinton's "change" ticket--to tip theNovember balance in Democrats' favor
...sheer numbers of U.S. gay men and women -- a minority roughly as numerous as blacks or Hispanics, four times as numerous as Jews. It brought frank, nonjudgmental discussion of their lovemaking, including anatomical mechanics, into the nation's newspapers and even some of its classrooms. The epidemic helped prompt big-city mayors and police departments to appoint liaisons to their gay communities. It opened the doors of charities and foundations, of newspaper and TV editors, even of Governors and Congress members, to leaders of gay organizations that previously had not been taken seriously -- or that, in many cases...