Word: absorbers
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...Church's many gifts is his writing speed. "It's late in the week, news is breaking, correspondents are scrambling, and George has this ability to absorb enormous quantities of material," says World editor Jim Kelly. "He then puts it together in a way that readers can understand and enjoy." Moreover, Church's memory could shame an elephant. "He reads things once, including a correspondent's files, and remembers them damn near forever," a fellow writer, Ed Magnuson, complains cheerfully. While at a baseball game last summer, Magnuson asked Church if he could recall his first visit to a ball...
Diabetic complications have also been linked to elevated levels of sorbitol, a sugary alcohol. Even in the absence of insulin, certain cells, such as those in the lens of the eye, continue to absorb glucose. But without insulin, glucose cannot be processed in the usual way; the cell instead converts it to sorbitol. The abnormal accumulation of sorbitol causes cell membranes to swell and leak. It also interferes with vital biochemical processes...
...been partly completed but not paid for. Some of those losses will be covered by Hermes Kreditversicherung AG, the German state export-insurance program, but as much as $1.2 billion in trade with Iraq and Kuwait is not insured. Large diversified conglomerates like Daimler-Benz, Mannesmann and Ferrostaal can absorb such shortfalls, but smaller firms with proportionately larger exposure are talking about hardship and calling for a government bailout...
...spot. An article that Beasley and a colleague published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends, among other things, that police carry artificial resuscitation devices for their four- footed friends and a supply of activated charcoal that the dogs can swallow in solution to absorb most drugs before digestion. Because dogs, unlike their masters, just...
Shapiro says that the state-of-the-art telescope he envisions has to be up very high to avoid water vapor that can absorb submillimeter waves...