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...post-Nirvana crowd can embrace. His playing is not indulgent--rarely will he take an all-out, all-eyes-on-me solo--but it is attention grabbing nonetheless. Like Hendrix, he can coax strange sounds from his guitar: metallic rasps, hip-hop-like scratches, notes that snap back like rubber. And yet, like U2's the Edge and R.E.M.'s Buck, he works in tightly focused riffs and bursts...
...could smell the burning rubber. The pedestrians were yelling to get the car off them," said Kara L. Dwyer '98, who watched the accident from her Kirkland window...
...eliminating it," she says. To help seniors maintain steadier blood pressure, she instructs them in minor adjustments in routine: sit for a minute or two before getting out of bed; clench and release the fists and wiggle the ankles throughout the day; and stay away from shoes with sticky rubber bottoms, which are as treacherous as slippery soles. She also advises them in the strategic placement of rudimentary safety equipment. This is pretty simple stuff--but highly effective. Within Tinetti's sample population of seniors, the number of falls has declined...
...spinal cord. Long nerve fibers, or axons, that originate in the brain and weave down the spinal cord, eventually connecting with other nerves that branch to muscles as distant as the toes, are torn and stripped of their protective fatty coat of myelin. The myelin sheath is like the rubber coating on electrical wire. Without it, the nerves cannot function...
...Nyla, the Virginia Zoo's only hippopotamus, died of a bowel blockage on Sunday after she ate a racquetball tossed into her pen by a visitor. Zookeepers were mystified by Nyla's death until an autopsy of the 4,300-pound hippo showed that she had a 2-inch rubber ball blocking her intestinal passageway. Though authorities knew the hippo was suffering some kind of obstruction, they did not perform surgery, fearing she would die during the procedure. Nyla, 31, had lived at the zoo for more than 20 years after spending her youth as part of a Las Vegas...