Word: six
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...package. Developed by the Population Council, an international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in most birth-control pills. Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into the bloodstream. The flow continues until the hormone...
...Six cars, including two engines, jumped the tracks at the curve only 500 ft. from the underground station. They slammed into a commuter train packed with 900 people on an adjacent track. Fuel ignited, and smoke choked trapped passengers in the darkness. At least 280 passengers were hurt...
...federal law allowed police agencies to keep assets seized from drug traffickers and money launderers. But not, of course, for personal use. Last week six members of an elite Los Angeles County sheriff's narcotics squad were convicted of conspiring to steal $48,000. They were acquitted of larceny on a grander scale: spending $1.4 million in confiscated cash on luxury cars, boats, jewelry and vacation homes...
...performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...
...transforms itself into a 24-hour society, millions of people are trying to get by on six hours or less of slumber, leaving many of them chronically sleep deprived and mentally impaired. The loss of alertness can contribute to everything from poor grades in school to accidents at work...