• In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.

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  • Three sizes of white cassocks hang in the Room of Tears off the Sistine Chapel, waiting to cloak the new pontiff.

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  • "Well, I think the first tears were of disappointment, but the second were tears of joy, " Afanaseva said.

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  • The thought of it just tears the heart out of my chest.

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  • While few people expect a pontiff to be elected on the first ballot, the Vatican was ready: In the Room of Tears off the Sistine Chapel where the pope goes immediately after his election, three sizes of white cassocks hung from a clothes rack.

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  • Many of the mourners had tears in their eyes as a group of religious singers sang verses from the Sikh Holy Book, the Guru Granth Sahib.

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  • Now, the reality of another such tragedy tears at the heart of Dave Kane, whose 18-year-old son Nicky was the youngest victim of the Station fire.

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  • Within the Liberals (seen as conservative, basically pro-business and largely sympathetic to the government) a split developed after its vice-chairman, Ronald Arculli, stalked out of the chamber in tears shortly before the vote.

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  • Fully titled "There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears, " the track uses the classic disc (also 1928) by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke and Bing Crosby as a starting point, with an unmistakably similar two-beat underpinning, a slow grind that makes it impossible to pin it down either rhythmically or chronologically.

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  • "There was a huge state funeral and there were many pieces of journalism reporting the event in the national press and many of them talk about 'tears gushing from every eye' and the 'nation's tears', 'Britannia's tears' at the falling of her hero and poems about Nelson and so on, " says Dr Dixon.

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  • "One athlete was on the verge of tears, " said the USATF report.

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  • The emotional explosion of tears meets with the brainwashing of office etiquette and you get this half-dismissive, half-collapse that is uniquely the office cry.

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  • College basketball's recent outbreak of splotchy eyes and drippy noses is a "new high mark of a changing culture, " says Tom Lutz, the author of "Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears, " even if some prefer other forms of catharsis.

    WSJ: Handling the Bawl: March Madness Turns Into the Crying Game

  • The shedding of tears and outpouring of dismay over the demise of the beloved Twinkie has yet to settle down.

    FORBES: Why Are Food Fascists Still Weeping Over Twinkies?

  • There are spades of humour, especially in the uproarious scene in which the gentlemen are enjoying late-night cigars where the dialogue tears the society of the time apart.

    BBC: Lady Windermere brims with talent

  • During her court appearance the model may have given the odd pout and hint of petulance, but the tears never flowed and her anger did not show.

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  • Once or twice, I stopped on the side of the road in tears.

    NEWYORKER: The Book of Bach

  • Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.

    NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

  • Satire is now part and parcel of the political discourse, alongside impromptu music videos from Nigeria's favourite artists crying the tears of a nation.

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  • For most of the last two decades, though, this dilapidated Soviet hotel was nicknamed the Hotel of Tears, and lived in by people who fled war in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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  • They had a glorious chance to take the lead in the second half but Arjen Robben, comfortably his team's most potent attacking weapon, could find no way past Spain captain Iker Casillas, who slumped to the floor and cried tears of joy after the final whistle.

    BBC: Netherlands 0-1 Spain (aet)

  • The Cuicocha lagoon was born from a river of tears coming down the slopes of Mt Cotacachi.

    BBC: Scaling the Ecuadorean Andes

  • In a boat up the mountain rivers, we saw dazzling walls of green and countless waterfalls tumbling down the hills like dozens of shimmering tears.

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  • The Rev Dominic Furness, 59, said it was a "wonderful gift" which had moved some of the 250-strong congregation to tears at the Grade I-listed Norman church.

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  • We both ran a careful finger along the lower edge of each eye, to wipe the tears without smearing the makeup.

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  • In the U.S., the two leading presidential contenders are scions of prominent political families, while many tears were shed recently over the death of a magazine editor who happened to have Kennedy as his last name.

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  • The first in the queue on Friday, Andy Morris, said he was on the verge of tears.

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  • Simone's voice possesses a strained tone that evokes a singer who's suffering, always on the verge of tears.

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  • Jesse Jackson and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears.

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