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Meanwhile, a lot of effort has gone into figuring out how to replace damaged cartilage. Many arthritis sufferers swear by the dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin. Preliminary studies suggest that they may relieve pain, but the jury's still out on whether they actually promote the growth of new cartilage. The first approved biotech cartilage implants have hit the inevitable stalemate: once the new cartilage is in place, it's subject to the same destructive forces that chewed up the original cartilage. In addition, transplanted cartilage does not seem to adhere very well to existing tissue, though researchers are trying...
...THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN SWEAR...
...search of foreshadowing--the spookier the better. For instance, when Jeff Buckley, who walked into the Mississippi River one evening and never walked out, sang, "This is our last goodbye," he must have known he had a watery grave in his future, right? And when Kurt Cobain growled, "I swear that I don't have a gun," he was just being gruesomely ironic...
...Bangkok, where men are men and bugs are food, just about everyone is happy to regale you with tales of monster sightings or giant, snaking tracks left in the riverbank's mud. Some locals brandish grainy pictures of what could be anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service members purportedly stationed in the area in the early 1970s, staggering under the weight of an eight-meter-long, silvery, eellike fish. Locals swear it's genuine...
...Halo” could sound like a U2 track, were it not for Grohl’s snide, tossaway lyrics (“Good and bad, I swear I’ve had / Them both, they’re overrated / But isn’t it fun, when you get hold of one”) and his hoarse scream in the chorus. The Foos do cynicism and disenchantment with both more of an ironic sparkle and less pretension than many pretenders to the rock throne...