Word: muck
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...first place to look for causes and treatments of Parkinson’s disease is in the brains of patients themselves. As the illness worsens, brain tissue becomes clogged with a protein muck that includes a substance called alpha-synuclein. No one knows exactly what alpha-synuclein does, but it’s believed to play a role in the smooth transmission of nerve signals. When the substance clumps, it can’t do the work it was designed to do, leading to neuron damage, loss of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and eventually to the familiar shakiness of such well-known Parkinson...
...fact, most council members are far more concerned by such "windbags" than the gentleman who penned last Friday's letter. For them, such people are not just a nuisance, they poison the work they are trying to accomplish. Council members understand better than anyone else the fact that the muck these people rake seems inevitably to find a quicker route to page one of The Crimson than any benefit they may bring students, a fact which is borne out (I am guessing) by the surprise with which most of you have read the accomplishments of the council that have been...
...ASPIRIN EFFECT Popping an aspirin each day to ward off a heart attack? Don't be so sure it will work. Aspirin should reduce the tendency of platelets to stick together and muck up arterial walls, but a provocative new finding suggests that high cholesterol levels may interfere with that. In 60% of patients with high cholesterol, aspirin had no effect on platelets, and is therefore unlikely to help the heart...
...legal battle looked to move ahead on multiple tracks: the Gore camp's contest of the results in the state courts, and the Bush camp's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court does not traditionally like to muck around in state matters, much less presidential elections. But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors...
What should Gore do? There must be fierce injured pride at work in his calculations--that, and a sensible fear that bringing Clinton in would stir up the old muck. Gore was more profoundly offended by the Lewinsky business than anyone would have thought that day in December 1998 when, at the defiant Rose Garden rally, he succumbed to his exaggeration addiction once again and declared Clinton to be one of the greatest American Presidents...