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...Federalizing the process would spawn additional forms and paperwork to add to the bureaucracy," Gladieux said...
Since the Stumpjumper first appeared in shops, Sinyard's Specialized Bicycle Components, based in Morgan Hill, Calif., has grown into a $100 million enterprise and has helped spawn a frenzy of furiously inventive competitors. Trek, a struggling little 10-employee maker of bicycle frames back when the Stumpjumper appeared, is now a leading ATB manufacturer. Based in Waterloo, Wis., Trek expects to sell 500,000 cycles worth an estimated $200 million this year, 10 times its 1985 sales...
...room where Marissa's 19-year-old sister Anissa lay waiting. Through a Hickman catheter inserted in the chest, the doctor began feeding the baby's marrow into Anissa's veins. The marrow needed only to be dripped into the girl's bloodstream. There, like salmon heading home to spawn, the healthy marrow cells began to find their way to the bones...
None of these films are Citizen Kane -- what is? -- but they come close to the spirit and intent of that eternally young masterpiece. They treat film technique as a living language; they taunt, dazzle, delight. Best of all, they seem ready to spawn a receptive audience. On a spring afternoon in Manhattan, hundreds of smart-setters crowd the lobbies of the Film Forum and the Angelika, downtown temples of alternative film. Poison and Paris Is Burning are sold out hours in advance. The atmosphere is festive, with the feeling that something good might happen inside. The movies, all movies, could...
...recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from mussel infestation. Physiologist Jeffrey Ram of Wayne State University in Detroit makes an even more devious suggestion. Zebra-mussel spawning, he notes, is triggered by odors wafting from phytoplankton. These chemical cues ensure that the eggs hatch when the food supply is plentiful. But what if synthetic scents were dabbled like perfume above the mussel beds? A premature spawn, says Ram, would surely doom most of the larvae...