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Rescuers sifting through the rubble have found thinner-than-recommended steel rods and cement "filled with so much sand that it crumbles in [the workers'] hands."
When we moved into our present house in the '60s we were told that the garden measured five and a half rods square --the square of 5.5 is not a simple piece of mental arithmetic, I found.
These specimens were everted and the intestinal sleeves secured onto 1 mm diameter stainless steel rods using 3-0 silk ties as described previously [ 15 ] . The distal ileal segments from 1-2 cm proximal to the ileocecal valve (immediately adjacent to the tissue used in the uptake experiments) and the jejunal segments were used for immunohistochemistry studies.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."
We found that photoreceptor-specific genes typically showing high, retina-specific expression that began around one week after birth, coinciding exactly with the previously reported increase in expression of rhodopsin and other rod-specific genes [ 13 14 15 ] . We typically saw higher expression of photoreceptor-specific genes in microSAGE libraries made from microdissected outer nuclear layer (97% rods versus 70% rods for whole retina) and, in many cases, higher expression in P10.