Junk shot might sound like a Hail Mary, but the technique has worked in clogging onshore blowouts so that they can then be smothered with weighted mud.
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Dr. David Faxon , chief of cardiology at University of Chicago Hospital and former president of the American Heart Association, began using the device earlier this year to determine the role viscosity may play in clogging or hardening arteries.
One of the first products, DuPont's high-oleic soyabean, which yields an oil lower in artery-clogging saturated fats, is now awaiting regulatory approval in Europe.
It contains heart-healthy unsaturated fats, including linoleic acid, and is low in artery-clogging saturated fat.
Soon it may order a disclosure as well about so-called trans unsaturated fatty acids, made from partially hydrogenated oils used to prepare a lot of junk food and said to be even worse culprits in artery-clogging.
When the stents are used according to their product labels, the risk seems to be balanced out by their benefit in preventing re-clogging, which might also cause heart attacks.
More than three weeks after the hurricane struck, with thousands of animals still clogging emergency shelters in Louisiana, FEMA hasn't provided basic veterinary equipment and supplies to its teams there.
In particular, cutting the taxes clogging up the labour market should create jobs.
What seemed like submerged logs clogging the water were, in fact, crocodiles.
Thousands of American tourists, clogging Washington's streets in search of cherry blossom, have every reason to be alarmed - except they do not seem to be.
But arteries often heal around the old, bare metal stents in a process called restinosis, re-clogging them and necessitating a second procedure.
Their goal: convince skeptical consumers that the shrink-wrapped sirloin tips in the supermarket aren't artery-clogging commodities mass-produced on factory farms, but wholesome meals turned out with great care by hard-working families.
Approximately 7, 500 people in the UK have the inherited condition, in which the lungs produce far too much mucus, clogging the airways and making it hard to breathe.
In the meantime, the banks are delaying foreclosure proceedings and clogging up the housing pipeline.
Half of all heart disease patients don't even have high cholesterol, a fact that confounds the layman's myth that heart attacks are caused by cholesterol clogging up the body's plumbing like grease in pipes.
Open a full-service supermarket in a food desert and shoppers tend to buy the same artery-clogging junk food as before they just pay less for it.
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To keep the thousands of oil field workers from clogging the one artery to the oil sands, 500 buses run in a continuous loop from Fort McMurray to the oil fields.
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The rest of the year, Tiradentes remains sleepy, with its starred establishments offering an eclectic mix that runs the gamut from artery-clogging comida Mineira (local foods) to contemporary Brazilian cuisine steeped in the Slow Food movement.
Users of these early firearms had to deal with soot clogging their barrels, and may have eventually discovered that if they cut curved grooves in the gunk while cleaning, it would impart a spin on the projectile, making it more accurate.
Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.
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