Word: dropping
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Cautious optimism also pervades the Rogosin Institute in New York City, where Dr. Bruce Gordon, an expert on treating high cholesterol, became intrigued with the fact that cholesterol and blood lipids (fats) in people with severe illness or injury tend to drop to abnormally low levels. This makes them more vulnerable to sepsis, he reasoned, because one of the lipids' functions is to bind to and neutralize endotoxins. His unorthodox solution (especially for someone known for fighting high cholesterol): try to raise lipid levels in sepsis victims...
...recent, sweltering Tuesday, I picked up one daughter from a friend's house and deposited another at a piano lesson before the last leg of the Hebrew-school car-pool route. If I negotiated the parking-lot drop-off successfully, I would have time to beg the butcher for something I could cook during the 10-minute slot allocated for dinner preparation/homework assistance/personal time...
...some tech multimillionaires postpone serious charitable giving. At one point in 1998, he watched the value of his Netscape stock erode from $2 billion to $200 million. And other wealthy techies have seen similar wild swings in their personal fortunes. Explains Clark: "When you see your net worth drop like that, you think, 'If this keeps going, I'm going to have to sell my airplane...
...their counterparts at other elite colleges are doing their damnedest to leave it behind. It seems that we can't grow up quickly enough. When students at other schools take advantage of the summer to return home and strengthen ties with old friends from high school, us Harvardians might drop in on Mom and Pop for a couple days before flying over to Europe to analyze the details of the latest Northern Ireland peace agreement. In the rush to enter the working world, many forget the world they are leaving behind...
Graham does have a weakness for music. Friends and relatives roll their eyes when he breaks into one of his favorite campaign ditties: "I'm a Florida cracker, I'm a Graham cracker." "He'll sing it at the drop of a hat," says historian and Truman biographer David McCullough, whose son Bill is married to Graham's daughter Cissy. When grief-stricken Miamians took to the streets two weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian...