Word: true
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just in case that's true, I'm planning to stick with my electric. And never more than three times a week...
...suspect chemical may be produced in one or more tissues outside the brain, circulate in the bloodstream and enter various other tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory and intellect. If that is true, then a way might be found to block the delivery of the protein to the brain. That could slow down -- or even halt -- Alzheimer...
...down, says the voice of reason. Have a nice cup of decaf tea. Try to remember that a car is not a puppy. True, the dreamer muses, but if adult automobiles bred and had young, the result might be a Miata: short nosed, rounded and soft looking; mischievous, with a funny, not quite serious growl...
...wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...
...that Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbourg" -- Wilbur.) It is difficult, subtle, cerebral and on the whole quite unspectacular art, brimming with an inventiveness that, simply because it has become so embedded in our very conception of modernity, can sometimes be quite difficult to see in its true quality...