Although the races attract hundreds of thousands of spectators, most of them snatch only brief glimpses of the noisy four-wheeled inverted aeroplanes scudding around the tarmac, their aerofoils upside down to glue them to the track rather than lift them off a runway.

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The oldest drugs, like Haldol and thorazine, clomp onto the receptor like glue, completely shutting it down so tenaciously that they work for some time after patients stop taking them.

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Worse, the chemical instability of the glue means such cells tend to break down rapidly.

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How many of us send email to a colleague down the hall?. As our organizations slowly diffuse across timezones and space, collaboration is a glue to keep people together.

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