Word: thickness
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Americans, he is of mixed Spanish and Indian blood, with liquid brown eyes, deeply bronze skin and thick, jet-black hair. He was born on an 80-acre farm in Arizona's Gila Valley near Yuma, where his parents tried to scratch a living from the arid desert earth. Chavez met racial hostility early in daily rock fights between Anglo and Chicano kids at the village school...
...Inch-thick cracks appeared in its walls, conveniently enabling the Israelis to label the building dangerous to public safety. They marked it for demolition, thus allowing the excavations to proceed. The occupants, two Abu Saud sisters, declined offers of compensation and refused to move, asserting that the property was jointly owned with a Moslem religious foundation. Last week Israeli workmen moved them anyway, and bulldozed the house. The Israelis insist that the demolition had nothing to do with the fact that Arafat once lived there...
Fortunately, Jackie's other qualities include a thick skin and the killer reflexes of a mongoose. In a recent taped TV interview-later judiciously edited -she drew first and last blood from a female reporter...
...Thick and Thin. First, researchers must answer a basic question: how is pain felt? As long ago as 1826, Johannes Peter Müller promulgated the "law of specific nerve energies." He suggested that stimulation of specific pain receptors in the skin, like those for heat or pressure, sends impulses along specific nerve fibers to equally specific parts of the spinal cord and brain. This concept has since been called the "direct telephone-line system." The latest research shows that the system is by no means so simple as direct dialing. It is full of crossovers and redundancies, creating...
...single hair activates not one nerve fiber but many. Any one fiber, it appears, may be sensitive to more than one kind of painful stimulus. The fibers are not all alike but fall into two main classes, some that are microscopically thin and others that are relatively thick. The fine-fiber circuits can actuate the heavy-fiber circuits, which may reinforce or prolong the sensation of pain. So charting the pathways of pain-from the surface pinprick through the relays of the nervous system to parts of the brain where it is perceived and interpreted, perhaps with emotional overtones...