Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Compas saved the touchdown with an alert tackle, Peer put the Bisons ahead two plays later on a 16-yard race to the left corner of the end-zone...
...plays later, Bucknell's corner Nate Musselman intercepted a Linden pass on a broken play and ran it back to midfield. Just over a minute later, McDowell avoided a sack to sprint 30 yards before being tackled by alert junior Derek Yankoff...
Berde and his colleagues inserted a spinal catheter and gave the boy a local anesthetic and an opiate. The patient had been screaming; now he became comfortable and alert and was able to go home. Although that treatment had been used to control pain in adults, Berde says, "I don't know if it had been used much in kids. We had no protocol for it. But he clearly was terminal and not relieved by massive amounts of morphine...
...Amish came one night in 1987 while he was on duty in the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A fellow physician, Dr. Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster County. At the time, Danny was alert but had no control over his arms or legs--signs of cerebral palsy, which was Nichter's medical specialty. Morton's testing revealed a metabolic fingerprint that could be caused only by glutaric aciduria, a disorder that had previously been reported only eight times worldwide--and not once in Lancaster County...
...contrast to random collecting, Cox feels, ethnobotanical field research provides a far more streamlined way of locating plants that have medical potential. "Indigenous people have been testing plants on people for thousands of years," says Cox. More important, healers may alert ethnobotanists to nuances that random collecting could miss. Take Homalanthus nutans, a rain-forest tree whose bark Samoans have used for centuries as a cure for hepatitis. Cox quickly found that he could not just casually go into the forest and gather the bark because 1) there are two varieties of the tree, and the bark of only...