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As a result, axons approaching injured white matter would encounter disorganized myelin debris containing inhibitors.
When you fear a man approaching you may be a mugger, you may not be able to find out in the next five seconds whether he happens to be a University of Chicago intellectual headed for the New York Times editorial board.
However, a number of civilians remained in at least stairwell C, approaching lower floors.
This was proved by regression coefficients always greater than 96%, by plots of ratio of observed to predicted response in function of time approaching 1, and plots of observed minus predicted response in function of time approaching 0. The times to OA and to spontaneous recovery of T and T4/T1 of the two groups were summarized in Tables 2and 3, respectively.
She shared this with her audience, according to the Globe (along with the news that she's approaching menopause and that her young son walked in on her and her formerly straying husband, Frank Gifford, making love), because "I like to think of my breasts as America's breasts."