With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for—perhaps—the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race.

In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.

This region, which includes a transparent, or rarely colored, watery substance known as the cell sap, is called the vacuole, a term that comes from the Latin word for “empty.”

Rapid correction of hypernatremia and rapid change from normal serum sodium levels to marked hypernatremia may cause myelinolysis in humans, based on supporting data from animal studies 8) .