Word: vein
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Israel's crackdown poses a special problem for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. The Palestinian riots tapped a deep vein of anti-Israeli sentiment within Egypt that a decade of peace has failed to dry up. Though Mubarak denounced Israel's "methods of repression and persecution," he resisted pressure from many of his countrymen and other Arab leaders to take stronger steps, including withdrawing his ambassador from Tel Aviv and breaking trade and cultural agreements...
...working the Band vein here, but he is still writing in the American grain. Born in Canada to a Mohawk mother and a Jewish father, Robertson talks about American mythology, about leaving home in Ronnie Hawkins' barbed-wire rock band and touring rural America, about going "down South, where the music and folklore had enormous impact on me." All those great early Band songs (The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Shape I'm In, Up on Cripple Creek) were Robertson's way of measuring and transmuting all that experience. The material on this record just deepens...
Using special equipment flown in from the U.S., the doctors injected GM-CSF into each patient's vena cava, the central vein that leads to the heart. Within 48 to 72 hours, the white blood cell count increased in five of the six patients, but Leide died before the treatment could be evaluated. Within a week four of the six patients had died, overwhelmed by pneumonia, blood poisoning and hemorrhaging. But the other two seem to be recovering. "I can't be certain that they would have died if they had not got the treatment," Gale says. "But they...
...this vein, Shattuck and Spence seek to remove a large stumbling block to a closer relationship with the government: restrictions on information. While more federal funds may boost campus-based research, White House information policies produce an opposite effect which may far outweigh the good of more money...
Unlike many Harvard bands, Men of Clay plays mostly originals. Their music has an ethereal sound in the Sting-Police vein. Or, as one listener at Memorial Hall last week described their sound, "[It's] like U2 without Bono...