Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of us don't think about it. The handshake is expected and is executed automatically in a ritual little babble of nicetomeetyouhowdoyoudo? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someone's extended hand, then the handshake would become an awkwardness and an issue, a refusal being an outright insult...
There's a sadness at the core of this CD that trails every beat like a heart murmur. At age 12, Apple says, she was raped by a stranger. Images from that attack creep across her songs, shadows angling along a wall. In Fast As You Can, she sings, "I fight him always and still." In real life, Apple says, she's happily dating filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights). But on this CD, her heart is a chunk of meat in a fridge: unloved, unlovable, freezer-burned. Violated once, she says romance races "right through" her. So she writes...
DRINKERS Evidence shows a drink during heart attack can help. Ask ambulance to swing by tavern...
...Haseltine, the biotech industry's champion optimist and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, based in Rockville, Md., we will have genetically based drugs for almost every serious ailment--"things we couldn't really work on well before, whether it's osteoporosis or Alzheimer's." Nor will these drugs simply attack symptoms, as aspirin does. "That's a chemical crutch," he says. In the new genomics, as Haseltine calls it, "it's the human gene, the human protein, the human cell--and not the chemical--that is used as the medicine...
...physician's tightly held monopoly on information. Specialists are starting to provide consultations via the Internet. Some doctors are experimenting with computer programs that monitor how often an asthmatic refills a prescription, alerting them when the pattern indicates that stronger medicines are needed to head off a more serious attack...