Word: acidizing
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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...
...Western Civilization is a documentary about the punk-rock scene in Los Angeles: music from seven bands (Black Flag, the Germs, Catholic Discipline, X, the Circle Jerks, Alice Bag and Fear), plus interviews with band members, their managers, the club owners, rock writers and fans. It is also an acid test of hipness. You're hip if you see the punks' musical and social anarchy as liberating, bringing rock back to its proletarian roots and also forging ahead. You're out of it if you see this new wave as one of calculated moral repulsiveness, winning converts...
...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...