Word: threading
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...Digitalis from foxglove. Opiates from poppies. Aspirin from the bark of willow trees. Even now, nearly 60% of the best-selling prescription drugs in America's pharmacies are based on compounds taken directly from Mother Nature's well-stocked armamentarium. It's as if there were a bright, healing thread running from the medicine bags of shamans and witch doctors to today's drugs for cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease...
...beagle, and in the wake of his death some Peanuts fans have eagerly championed the strip's dark side, quoting Schulz's belief that "Happiness is not very funny." Smigel agrees, and while his hooker-loving puppets are just distant cousins of Schulz's neurotic gang, there is a thread there...
...next step was to thread a tiny surgical balloon and a thin stainless-steel stent into the artery to forcibly widen the passage. After the balloon was deflated, the metal mesh of the stent was left in place to keep the artery open. During this procedure the results from Cheney's second blood test became available. It showed a slight increase in the cardiac enzymes, indicating that Cheney had suffered a mild heart attack after...
...United States presidency should not hang by the thread of questionable Florida ballots. I therefore propose that we concoct an entirely different method to decide between our candidates...
...into some offices when people get a little money and they have this huge spread with a marble floor. First, that distracts them from their job, and second, if you go through a dry spell you're living beyond your means. It's important to keep the family thread. We want to keep our offices low-key. That's why we have cubicles. Yeah, you might be the CFO, but you're getting a cubicle - just to keep everyone down to earth. It sends a message that "Yeah, you're getting paid, but when you're at work...