And I started first with cow Achilles tendon, where we would take the cow Achilles tendon, which is type I collagen, strip it of its antigens by degrading it with an acid and detergent wash and forming it into a regeneration template.

When the sky is ruptured .

Achilles was an ancient Greek hero.

BEIJING China s face may be its Achilles Heel.

But managerial capitalism, too, has its Achilles heel.

Etiology Three main theories have emerged in an attempt to explain the mechanisms involved in tendon calcification.

The battle with the judges may well prove to be Mubarak s Achilles heel.

Dialogue among the Ivorian parties remains the Achilles heel of the transition process.

I am more invulnerable than Achilles fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Indeed, NATO s top general, James Jones, has called drugs the Achilles heel of Afghanistan.

In 1536, he began to suffer from kidney and bladder stones, and arthritis, and an ear infection ruptured an ear drum.

If more countries take this path, it could prove to be the Achilles heel of non proliferation.

It is not a manly modern Achilles who makes the best warrior leader in today s communication age.

That August, construction workers in Qiqihar mistakenly ruptured mustard gas canisters left from the wartime Japanese occupation, injuring dozens and killing at least one.

David said the scars Jamal presented as bullet wounds from the 2000 incident were actually scars from a tendon repair operation that David performed in 1994.

During the final, Nadal called a trainer to attend to a tendon problem with his right knee, which notably affected his play in the final set.

The third and seemingly scariest component of Hwang s formula, militarism, may in fact prove to be the system s Achilles heel.

The problem is that it is no more than a workshop lack of innovation and creation form the economy s Achilles heel.

But as Thetis held Achilles by the heel, his heel was not washed over by the water of the magical river.

Some experts later concluded that Rappe's bladder might also have ruptured as a result of an abortion she might have had a short time before the September 5 party.

Relations between Iraq and Egypt violently ruptured in 1977, when the two nations broke relations with each other following Iraq's criticism of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives with Israel.

Geronimo was never saying, Ah, you know something, my achilles I'm tapering. I got to take this week off, or I need to cross train.

On the other hand, the second phase of the crisis mercilessly exposed the euro s Achilles heel the absence of economic or financial unification within the eurozone.

There is the Achilles' heel of growing inequality those that are left out, those that feel angry, those that are not participating. Globalization has not been inclusive.

But the Achilles heel of state guidance is that once such economies near the production possibility frontier, policy makers run out of industries and technologies to copy.

They told him of a great hero called Achilles, who, when he participated in battle, victory was assured, but when he withdrew from the battle, defeat was inevitable.

That is no excuse for paranoia and repression, but just because the Party has outlasted predictions of its demise does not mean that it has no Achilles heel.

So they both set out until when they had boarded the boat , the chosen bondman ruptured the boat said Moosa , Did you make a hole in the boat in order to drown its passengers ? You have indeed done an evil thing .

After all, the human sex drive, especially if it compels risky or self destructive behavior, has held appeal for dramatists since the ancient Greeks, who originated the story of Achilles and his vulnerability.

Thus, Fox News calls itself fair and balanced, and Karl Rove and his acolytes turn their opponents strongest traits into their Achilles heels, using insinuations and lies to portray the opponents achievements as phony.

See Arrowsmith S., Electronic reverse auctions under the EC public procurement rules current possibilities and future prospects, 11 Public Procurement Law Review, No. 6, 2002, pp. 299 330 (originally prepared for Achilles Information Ltd.).

In a typical circumstance, when a human is exerting a muscle as hard as he she is consciously able, roughly one third of the fibers in that muscle will be firing at once, though this ratio can be affected by various physiological and psychological factors (including Golgi tendon organs and Renshaw cells).

BEIJING China s face may be its Achilles Heel. As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower the dragon that is outpacing Asia s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.

Lastly, there should be better controls over operations involving uranium enrichment, plutonium reprocessing and the disposal of spent fuel and nuclear waste they were a veritable Achilles heel of the current non proliferation regime, and should be concentrated in a limited number of regional centres.

The Internet has created a dreamscape that is accessible to all and that can inspire us to still greater heights of imagination. Indeed, those who scoff at the value of this should remember that ever since Homer sang around the hearth fire about the wrath of Achilles, dreams have been our greatest source of pleasure and inspiration.