Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study to determine its effect on colitis. Normally prescribed to help smokers kick the habit, these patches release a predetermined amount of nicotine through the skin into the bloodstream, where it eases the craving for cigarettes. Physicians have known for some time, however, that nicotine also seems to quiet the symptoms of colitis. So, although the Food and Drug Administration has not approved the nicotine patch for the treatment of colitis, Sandborn thought it might just do the trick. It did. "It was like a miracle drug," Trebilcock says. Within two weeks her condition began to clear...
...misunderstood, taken out of context, attacked, so it's something I can endure. But there are two things that are at work here. One, that notwithstanding that I'm already a public figure, I'm still a very private person, and my family is a private existence. We live quiet and private lives. So this would be a change in the life of my family unlike anything we have ever experienced before. And I have to give very, very serious thought about whether we should do that to the family. And the second point I always have to make...
...would come as less of a surprise to me if [Tadesse] just committed suicide, because since she was always so quiet I could see how she could be depressed," said Nan Zheng '96, who met Tadesse during first-year orientation week and occasionally ate lunch and dinner with her over the past three years...
...morning of the murder, stunned and appalled Dunster residents--most of whom had never spoken with the quiet Tadesse and Ho--crowded the courtyard...
Almost nothing but good. Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can find excellent cappuccino and Thai food and great bookstores yet live on a quiet, treelined street and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody. Of course, there is bound to be resentment. But in the end, our prosperity will benefit everyone...