half blood- one of siblings who have only one parent in common relative,relation- a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" quad,quadruplet- one of four children born at the same time from ...
God forbid it should get on anything before being injected directly into my blood. I had already been admonished not to share a bathroom with anyone for a few days, for the same reason. I’m sure the city water treatment plants are well-prepared for stuff like this coming down the ...
The Half-Blood Princes: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Their Strategies of LegitimationVisiting England in 1553, an Italian traveler recorded his impressions of a kingdom recently thrown into turmoil by the death of its young king, the rise and fall of a young female usurper, and the revolt by ...
Have you ever had a good idea just as you were dozing off? Or awoke in the middle of the night with something you thought was unusually good or smart or even an answer to a nagging problem? Of course you have: it’s universal. I’m going to state, unequivocally and without providing...
New Blood. Even now Evie’s belly was starting to grow for the second time. Malika’s family said that this baby was probably going to work out better than Evie’s first one had. Most days, Evie would open her book of history and tell the children about one of the times a general ...
Although this descriptive study is unable to estimate causal effects, it does address an important question—how much progress in math and reading have cohorts of US students made over the past half century? The question is of interest to principals for the very good reason that the rate of ...
LIGHTNING throws his face into a stark relief map of pain and fury: blood is streaming from his hairline, freezing in his eyes, staining his teeth. He gazes up at the mainsail, still intact and straining against the wind. We hear a huge CRACK! The base of the mast is starting to ...
Run For Blood Quarter Marathon I never really got into a rhythm during this run. The nervous energy from the start of the race quickly burnt off and the sun beating down on me sapped much of my remaining mojo. The last 4 miles were at a very consistent 9:30 pace. I ended up passing...
“I need whole blood, stat,” says one of the guards. The ambulance’s paramedic opens his mouth to protest, then sees an SMG raised to his face and thinks better of it. “Right away,” he says. Ruta Nacional 40, Now The PCs hide the cars a little way off their IED in the culv...
As cognitive processes are crucial to the skilled actions involved in team sports, and considering the role of blood glucose in the maintenance of brain function, supplementing exogenous carbohydrates that influence blood glucose concentrations could be of benefit to soccer skills performed in the ...