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...real fluke," Martins said. "My skate just got caught in the ice, I guess. It hurt really bad, I thought it was broken at first...
...gobs of jelly oozing all over the floor. Fortunately, cells hold to a basic biological premise that stickiness is desirable for form and essential for function. They violate this premise at our peril. When cells become either too sticky or too slippery, arteries can get clogged, cancer cells can skate around the body, and inflammation can turn subversive. Researchers have long believed that if they could somehow manipulate stickiness, they would have a formidable new set of tools for healing...
Everyone remembers the classic Olympic moments--Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10, the U.S. ice hockey team's victory at Lake Placid, tai Babylonia and Randy Gardiner unable to skate. The Olympics represent the pinnacle of human athletic endeavor: Great talent, hard work, good sportspersonship...
...device enjoyed a limited popularity among hockey players until roughly four years ago, when sales abruptly and somewhat inexplicably skyrocketed. Mike J. Benshoff, Boston area representative for Rollerblade, attributes this lag time to cosmetics. In late 1988, Rollerblade developed a new skate with a flashy neon design, and sales started climbing. "When those went on the wall, things took off," Benshoff says...
There is even a new skate on the market called Metroblade which includes detachable wheels a la Inspector Gadget. "You can go to work in them, take off the wheels and walk around," Brine says. But Brine is skeptical about the new product, which he labels as gimmicky...