Word: acidity
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What is it about breast milk that makes babies so smart? Reinisch suspects there is a component of mother's milk that either protects the central nervous system or stimulates its development. The likeliest candidate: a long-chain polyunsaturated acid known as DHA that is found in human milk but not in infant formula or cow's milk. Today's infant formulas, by the way, are fortified with a precursor of DHA called ala and may offer some of the same benefits...
...that Botox has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, fans of cosmetic quick fixes are buzzing about the next miracle injectable. It's Restylane, a synthetic hyaluronic acid that, like collagen, can fill in facial lines and plump up lips. It's already a hit in Europe and Canada, though its maker has yet to seek approval in the U.S. But last week it completed its U.S. clinical study, and the results were impressive. Restylane outperformed a collagen-based substance by a 6-to-1 ratio. Unlike collagen, which lasts only about three months for some patients, Restylane...
Apparently, real Harvard athletes don’t have the time to singlehandedly foil FBI sting operations, fly out to Kansas every other day and drop copious amounts of acid. And the opening scene—in which Greiner shows up late for a game due to a romp in the hay with Sarah Michelle, only to promptly be inserted into the lineup—probably wouldn’t go over very well with Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan or real Harvard teammates...
...basketball player concentrating in philosophy who sleeps with his professor and takes acid cooked up by a chemistry-major pal. His cheerleader girlfriend, the daughter of a mafioso, who convinces him to throw a game. His ultimate downfall into a vicious world of drugs, sex and gambling...
...Francisco Examiner praised the film’s depiction of the lead character’s acid trip as “the most brutal and convincing acid trip ever filmed,” and the San Franciso Chronicle said Toback’s recent movies “are automatically interesting because he made them...