Word: 80s
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Among men, who tend not to suffer from severe osteoporosis until their mid-80s, researchers are just beginning to explore the benefits and risks of testosterone-replacement therapy. At the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, where a groundbreaking three-year study is at the midway point, some of the 100 test subjects already boast of significantly improved health. But researchers are wary of drawing any conclusions before discovering whether the potential benefits outweigh the risks of heightened cholesterol levels and cardiovascular disease. Whatever the results, insists Dr. Diane Meier, associate professor of geriatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center...
...destroys the very life the donated organ was meant to save. The doctors believed the best weapons they had at their disposal were drugs designed to disable the immune system, if only partially. A mixture of azathioprine, prednisone and antilymphocyte globulin was the choice in the 1960s. In the '80s, cyclosporine proved even more effective. It was assumed that these drugs worked simply by disarming the body's built-in commandos--the human leukocyte antigens (HLAS) and T cells--long enough for the invading organs to gain a foothold...
Some problems refuse to go away. PESTICIDES containing chlorine--now banned but commonly used in the '70s and '80s for termite control--continue to contaminate treated homes. A small study finds that even today the chemical vapors seep through basement walls...
From the Philippines to the United States. From San Francisco to New York City. From the '70s to the '80s, from jazz to rock, from lumpia (a Filipino dish) to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, from Tagalog (a language native to the Philippines) to English, from assimilation blues to a graceful homecoming. Jessica Hagedorn's new novel, The Gangster of Love, is a book about transition, movement, emigration, immigration and repatriation. Though the title could hardly be sillier or more ungainly--it sounds like an afterhours movie on Cinemax--the book itself is written with wit and style and ultimately...
Forsgard says that she and House Master Stephen A. Mitchell bring to Eliot experience with randomization, since they were both tutors in North House, now Pforzheimer, during the '80s, an unpopular time for the dorm...