Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first quarter, Snowden had one punt--which appeared to be partially blocked--travel only 13 yards. And in the second quarter, Snowden downed his own punt, which went straight up into the air and bounced backward for a loss of three yards...
Scientists consider receptors--which are specially tailored protein molecules--and the substances that bind to them to be the critical junction in the ongoing chemical processes that underlie thinking, feeling, dreaming and remembering. For an electrical signal to travel from neuron to neuron in the brain, it must cross a minuscule gap, the synapse, between them. A number of different chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters ferry the signal across the synapse and then lock on to receptors that lie on the membrane of the next nerve cell in line...
Glossy views of Chinese patients stretched out on operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as snake soup or the I ching. The mere mention of it to a Western physician would invite a stern, finger-wagging lecture on the perils of quackery...
...been circulating among animals probably for centuries. And while diseases have been jumping from animals to humans throughout history (hantavirus, AIDS and Ebola are only three recent examples), it was not until this century that the bugs could take advantage of jet-age transportation to leave the jungle and travel to hundreds or thousands of people...
...those of us covering the Clinton campaign juggernaut, it is the most revealing moment of this day. We may travel with him to three or four cities a day and have drinks with his aides. But as far as Clinton is concerned, the campaign machinery is designed to have reporters see--at only slightly closer range--just what the public sees. We duly observe the big, exultant crowds generated by expert advance teams, the Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning...