Word: velcro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scientists have not yet identified what factor in smoke lowers levels of MAO B, but Fowler speculates that it may be working synergistically with nicotine to boost dopamine levels. Earlier research showed that nicotine also increases dopamine levels by gripping like Velcro to receptors clustered in the forebrain...
...envy Danny," he adds, a reference to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, another war hero whose remaining arm is strong enough "to cut food, which I can't do." Dole is particularly perturbed by the superfluous inside button on men's trousers. "I wish it could be Velcro or something," he says. Then why button it in the first place? Dole's stare is withering: "I'm the kind of guy that if that thing isn't buttoned, even if no one else knows it because they can't see it, then I still know it and I can't perform...
...Mius are even more of a departure. Almost all the materials used are synthetics. "It's a joke--right design, wrong fabric," Miuccia cries, running her hand through a powder blue Jackie-style polyester sleeveless sheath. The punch line? The fastenings are Velcro. Stretch materials--nylon, gabardine, a georgette that looks like organza--are dominant in the collection...
...carries instructions for assembling proteins out of chemical building blocks called amino acids. What sets the proteins made by Hox genes apart is the biochemical motif known as a homeobox, a stylized string of 60 amino acids that enables Hox proteins to stick to DNA like strips of molecular Velcro and, in the process, activate still other genes. Hundreds of genes belong to the extended homeobox family, but those that are also homoeotic -- associated with changes in body parts -- are the most important. Though they are few in number (38 out of an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 genes...
...stabilizing one-repeated-note bass-line. The songs can be, have to be, so simple because most of them have a central riff that takes over your auditory memory all by itself; the end result is an album that's got more hooks than Dave Letterman's Velcro suit...