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...more aggressive Rullman looked for his shot more often against Penn, but sophomore Eric Moore performed a Human Velcro stunt and the Winthrop senior didn't score until he canned a three 9:06 into the game--the first trey of the weekend for the second-best three-point bomber in Harvard history...
Stickiness is central to almost all biological processes. Cells are able to form organs and function as a unit thanks to a fascinating category of complex glues they secrete known as extracellular matrix. Securing cells in their matrix are Velcro-like patches called cellular-adhesion molecules (CAMs), which are present on every cell except red blood cells. These cellular glues not only hold things together but also play a vital role in growth, fetal development, repair of damaged tissue and elimination of noxious invaders...
...going to cure cancer, but it might stop metastasis," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Richard Hynes. At the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation in California, genetic scientists have succeeded in inserting a CAM gene inside a tumor cell. Once the cell starts manufacturing patches of biological Velcro, it is essentially "glued in place. It becomes incapable of metastasizing," says Erkki Ruoslahti, president of the foundation. A second approach to controlling cancer is known as "walking on ice." Here the goal is to deny tumor cells traction so they can't grip the walls of blood vessels to implant elsewhere...
BELIEVERS IN A UNIFIED CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAY NOW regret that Vaclav Havel's 1989 "velvet revolution" wasn't the "Velcro revolution" instead. Parliamentary elections have revealed deepening differences between Czechs and Slovaks, thus increasing the chances that the 74-year-old federation will become unstitched like the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Last week, after the autonomy-seeking Movement for a Democratic Slovakia topped the polling in the Slovak republic, the group's leader, Vladimir Meciar, pressed his demand for a total rearrangement of Czech-Slovak relations...
...Look right!" I screamed, not bothering to fight the panic. Both my hands closed over the red release tab attached to my right harness strap and pulled it from the velcro strip...