Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in most birth-control pills. Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into the bloodstream. The flow continues until the hormone is depleted -- usually in about five years. If a woman wishes to become pregnant earlier, she can have the tubes removed, and fertility will be restored in less than 48 hours...
...maybe even 5, the blare of the alarm breaks the night, and another workday dawns. As an arm gropes to stop the noise and the whole body rebels against the harsh call of morning, the thought is almost always the same: I have to get more sleep. That night, after 17 or 18 hours of fighting traffic, facing deadlines and racing the clock, the weary soul collapses into bed once again for an all-too-brief respite. And just before the slide into slumber, the nagging thought returns: I have to get more sleep...
...harsh streetlight that illuminates closed-up warehouses and auto-body shops. The pavement glistens with water from fire hydrants, which addicts tap to clean their needles. One woman paces the sidewalk with her skirt pulled above her waist, and another crouches on the ground injecting heroin into her arm. Lines of cars circle the block. Girls, men and older couples flock toward...
...Flynn, eat one of the free sandwiches or look through the clothes bag. A young girl named Susan in a tight leopard-pattern top anxiously awaits the result of her test for the AIDS virus. "You are lucky this time," Zayas says as he puts his arm around her and walks her back across the street. "But you have to keep using condoms...
...some regulars are disenchanted by what has been happening to the Bow. Two such men are the Pappas brothers, Peter and George. George has a short haircut with long tail and sports two arm length tattoos of wizards, dragons and other fantastic creatures. His brother Peter is missing two front teeth and wears a black t-shirt...