Outside Vitti's window, Pau Gasol lay stretched out on a table, resting his groin, which had recently received a PRP shot, or platelet-rich plasma therapy.
At a conference in Paris in 1995 Yale neuropathologist Laura Manuelidis told researchers that, despite the prion bandwagon, almost everything about T.S.E.s points to a "slow virus" (so called because of the long incubation periods), with the protein PrP acting as a gatekeeper at some stage of the organism's life.
Thus, both the component amino acids of s and the structural relations they bear to one another are constitutive of that instance of the structural property PrP.
But ministers' best hope lies in the long-term effect of PRP on what teachers can expect to earn.
And as part of a £30m package to improve head teachers' training during 2000-01, every new one will be given a free laptop computer.If all goes to plan, the first PRP schemes could be in place by next autumn.
Many of the offending LEAs are Labour-controlled, which promises battles between the prime minister and members of his own party.Like PRP, this will increase the manager-ial role of head teachers.
In particular, PRP may keep good teachers in the classroom, but it is unlikely to entice many more into the teaching profession.Relatively poor pay and the wealth of job opportunities in a buoyant economy have made teaching, like many other public-sector jobs, unattractive (see chart).
Poorly designed PRP schemes can interfere with other improvement programmes.
Some of this has been earmarked for a kind of PRP-by-stealth scheme in the universities: £50m has been set aside to "recruit and retain top-quality academic staff in an increasingly competitive global market for people and ideas".
Downing Street officials claim that their PRP system is a pioneering one.
It could also set heads against both teachers and their unions: the National Union of Teachers, the biggest union, has damned PRP as divisive.
