Word: agent
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...While lying down, the patient is injected with a contrast agent that helps highlight the heart's blood vessels...
...know that excess cholesterol tends to trigger this process in the arteries that feed the heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower...
...Fast-food place," the teller deadpans. "They serve those little square burgers." Miller (The Human Stain) carries the lead role with grim charisma, like a jailbird Jack Bauer. If anybody had told me that engineers were stone-cold badasses with the fighting and scheming skills of a black ops agent, I would have seriously reconsidered my college major...
...young woman with a checkered employment record inherits her grandmother's matchmaking business, and takes on the client from hell. That's this super Chicago sports agent, who expects him to find her the perfect wife. His idea of perfect and her idea of perfect are a little bit different. I think it's a little bit like Bridget Jones meets Jerry Maguire. I loved that movie...
...apartment-rental ads on classifieds site Craigslist, say, you can enter your price range and your preferred neighborhoods, and save that search result as an RSS feed. The appropriate listings pop up in your newsreader every day, just as if you'd hired a real estate agent to do the legwork...