Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media may be trivializing [Folkman's] contributions by putting all the pressure on one compound, endostatin, to be a silver bullet in the clinic. This is unfair," he says. "[Folkman's] contributions to both angiogenesis inhibitors and stimulators in clinical trials cannot be underestimated...
Mirza Tanovic is the avuncular, mustachioed host of "My Home," a half-hour show on Bosnian television. In plaid shirt and flak jacket, he tells viewers how to fix up their houses after years of war damage, offering tips on repairing bullet holes and replastering walls to disguise shrapnel scars...
...helicopter took Laster to another hospital, where she arrived in critical condition. The bullet had lodged in her abdomen, and surgeons had to repair her intestines. But the operation went well, and Stephanie will probably be home within days. By Friday she was able to talk with friends and family, folks so bighearted they sat around her hospital bed and said how awful they feel for T.J. Solomon...
...popular boy two years older who had lettered in three sports. Cheek had teased Solomon, they said, but it was unclear if the linebacker was a primary target. Cheek, who was shot twice in the leg, was healthy enough Friday to deny taunting Solomon and to joke that the bullet still stuck near his groin would set off the metal detectors he was sure the school would install...
...line between illicit, feel-good drugs such as marijuana and amphetamines and legal mood-altering substances such as Luvox, Wellbutrin, and Effexor is a blurry one. Many of the same optimistic claims--enhanced concentration, decreased anxiety, a renewed capacity for feeling pleasure--are made for both types of magic bullet, whether they are bought on the street or in a pharmacy. A profoundly mixed message is being sent to teens when certain substances are demonized for promoting the same subjective states touted on the labels of other compounds. Adolescents, who are famously alert to hypocrisy among their elders, will surely...