STARS

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STARS

Cardiology A clinical trial–St Thomas Atheroma Regression Study at the St Thomas Hospital, London, which evaluated the effect of a high-fiber diet and/or choleserol-lowering drugs on ASHD. See Acute myocardial infarction, LDL pattern A, LDL pattern B Neurology A clinical trial–Standard Treatment with Activase to Reverse Stroke.

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To-night they seemed fixed with unusual firmness in the blue, and flashed back such a ripple of light into her eyes that she found herself thinking that to-night the stars were happy.

By the light of the stars, Stogdon House looked pale and romantic, and about twice its natural size.

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She was sunk in a pit of blackness, with but that small square of pallid light framing the star that she had so whimsically and oh, so ineffectually named.

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"Now, Twala, we give this magic tube to thee, and by-and-by I will show thee how to use it; but beware how thou turnest the magic of the Stars against a man of earth," and I handed him the rifle.

"What seek ye, white men of the Stars--ah, yes, of the Stars? Do ye seek a lost one?

Not stones that shine, not yellow metal that gleams, these thou leavest to 'white men from the Stars.' Methinks I know thee; methinks I can smell the smell of the blood in thy heart.

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Just as a photographic plate receives a different impression of a cluster of stars when a telescope is part of the intervening medium, so a brain receives a different impression when an eye and an optic nerve are part of the intervening medium.

(2) All the appearances of a given star in different places.

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If the observer had then specially directed his attention to one of the more humble and less brilliant of these stellar bodies, a star of the fourth class, that which is arrogantly called the Sun, all the phenomena to which the formation of the Universe is to be ascribed would have been successively fulfilled before his eyes.

Thus, then, advancing from atom to molecule, from molecule to nebulous mass, from that to principal star, from star to sun, from sun to planet, and hence to satellite, we have the whole series of transformations undergone by the heavenly bodies during the first days of the world.

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"Will there be any more Rains?" asked the man with the star.

It was not so high as the glowing star of the six colored suns, but was descending slowly through the air--so slowly that at first it scarcely seemed to move.