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...into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then he removes the tube and seeds the inside with lining cells, which soon grow together. The vessels have worked well in animal tests, and in the lab have withstood blood pressure 20 times normal...
...take it you don't think this rises to the level of impeachment, and you're troubled by this relentless pursuit of someone's private behavior," Stewart says, sounding a little stiffer than UPS folks usually sound when they're telling you where to sign and wishing you a nice...
...Stiffer racquets offer more control, Brody notes, but flexible racquets are more comfortable. The professor pooh-poohs the digital precision of rating systems, at least for Bad Doubles players: "You cannot tell the difference between a 6.0 and a 6.2," he says. But even players like me should consider string tension: "The tighter the strings, the less power you get," he explains. Racquets strung less tightly launch the ball like a trampoline but with some loss of control...
Evidence like the GAO report is sure to encourage even more lawyers to file suits seeking damages for alleged wrongdoing by nursing homes. And if jurors keep awarding multimillion-dollar verdicts to grieving families, nursing homes could end up embracing stiffer rules and penalties as a way to deter such claims...
Road-rage experts have come up with various solutions to the anarchy of our streets and highways. We could legislate it (lower speed limits, build more roads to relieve congestion), adjudicate it (more highway cops, stiffer penalties), regulate it (more elaborate licensing procedures) or educate it away (mandatory driver's ed). Others suggest an option perhaps more typical of America circa 1998: therapize...