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a: Hollywood ~
b: Detroit

What: "Indeed Hollywood has often been compared to Detroit". Both of these major industrial centers are engaged n the mass production of commodities. Detroit's output is more standardized,though manufacturer and model differentiate the automobiles that role off the assembly line." Source: "Looking At Movies An Introduction Film". page 480.

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Writer: Richard Barsam
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Mar 22 2013 7:17 PM



a: Golgi apparatus ~
b: a commercial hub

What: "Just as the endoplasmic reticulum is the workshop of the cell the Golgi apparatus is like a commercial hub which acts both as a sorting, packaging, shipping and receiving area with a little manufacture on the side."

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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Oct 24 2013 6:55 PM



a: Slavery ~
b: bad uncle

What:

"Slavery is like that uncle that paid for my college, but also molested me"


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Writer: Not Known
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jul 7 2014 4:12 PM



a: heart failure ~
b: an engine that's out of fuel

What:

"There is a hypothesis that heart failure is like an engine that's out of fuel," said Denney, "So what we are doing with this imaging technique is we're imaging the fuel that the heart muscle runs on. The idea is that if we could detect an early drop in that fuel, we could intervene earlier and possibly do a better job treating the patient."


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Writer: Dr. Thomas S. Denney Jr.
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Date: Feb 25 2015 3:04 PM



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