Word: patch
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...phone mishaps of teenagers aren't a bad way for two fathers to start a conversation intended to patch up their differences. But the missed message also turns out to be the operative metaphor for the Bush-McCain rapprochement. In the two months since Bush knocked McCain out of the primaries, relations between the victor and the vanquished have been awkward and tense, with anonymous aides trading acerbic barbs in the press. By the time the two men met in the Westin William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., last Tuesday, negotiations had been going on for so long--practically since...
...where there had been tears; an antigay Baptist minister expressing regret for the crime along with hope that in his last moments Matthew "had time to reflect on his lifestyle." (Shepard is not a character.) All this is enhanced by the shrewdly minimal staging: snatches of haunting music, a patch of prairie grass, the simple movement of actors about the stage--now talking, now listening, always participating in the collective act of trying to understand...
That's not quite what's happening in Roger Pedersen's lab at the University of California in San Francisco--at least not yet. But he has managed to turn a group of carefully tended progenitor cells into a patch of thriving, beating cardiac muscle. "It's amazing," Pedersen says, "when you put unspecialized cells away, come back after the weekend and there's a clump of heartlike cells beating before your eyes in a dish...
...cannot begin to mimic the body's own minute-by-minute micromanagement of testosterone levels. So they can produce a roller coaster of emotional and physical effects, from a burst of energy, snappishness and libido in the first days to fatigue and depression later. The main alternative, a testosterone patch, works best when applied daily to the scrotum, an inconvenient spot, to put it mildly. Some doctors recommend that you warm that little spot with a blow dryer, which...
...still talking about one universe--though one vastly larger than the tiny patch, a mere 30 billion light-years across, that we can see. But then scientists, including the Russian emigre Andrei Linde, realized that this inflation was more flexible than anyone had thought. Energy fields of early-universe intensity could arise purely by chance in subatomic-size regions of even a normal cosmos...