Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worth of pills for 24 hours' worth of relief. And then there are the dangerous side effects" (increased blood pressure, a greater risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease). Aspirin is helpful against mild pain. Most favored today are three drugs used against arthritis: ibuprofen, naproxen sodium and mefenamic acid...
...pending investigation of charges that aspartame might cause brain damage and that the animal studies submitted by manufacturer G.D. Searle were flawed. The charges were dismissed. However, the FDA says that aspartame should be avoided by victims of phenylketonuria, a condition characterized by the inability to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, that can result in mental retardation. Aspartame contains phenylalanine and will carry a warning on the label...
...Acid rain, a corrosive precipitation of pollutants that has been killing fish in many wilderness areas, will be another of the major battlegrounds. The causes of this problem are not yet well understood, and there is some suspicion that the Clean Air Act itself may have contributed to it. Reason: the law has led coal-burning plants to install taller smokestacks that carry particles high into the atmosphere, where they help to form the acid rain...
...beginning, there was confusion. The money managers were neophytes in the world of "venture capitalism": the academics had never heard of "technology transfer": and almost no one could pronounce "dioxyribonucleic acid" or say anything substantive about it, Nonetheless, the prospect of garnering desperately needed funds came close last fall to luring top Harvard administrators to trade University patents for shares in a fledgling genetic-engineering company involving a senior professor in a key role. After seeing through dollar signs to the practical and academic questions concerning the prospect of going into business with a faculty member, President Bok announced that...
Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...