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During this period, foreigners were allowed to buy large parcels of land for the first time (much of it used for the sugarcane plantations), and ties to America, both economic and political, were dramatically tightened, with talk of possibly annexing Hawaii reaching the White House.
The amnion was then removed and fibroblasts harvested after reaching ~80% confluence, and processed for western blot analysis.
-- Mad was prized as the only satirical voice reaching suburban adolescents.
After falling suddenly from 33,000 feet to 16,000 feet (and perhaps reaching the speed of sound), the plane rose like a roller coaster to 24,000 feet and then dropped again to 10,000 feet, at which point it was "no longer consistent with a flying airplane," says the National Transportation Safety Board.
To identify a group of rats as demonstrating paw preference, 7 of 10 rats had to be observed reaching in the same direction.