Word: binding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottle rocket wars in shopping center parking lots after midnight. Old times. Then the new year was on them and they left. New safety nets kept sliding underneath them: friends typed their theses, roommates fronted them money, parents kept in touch, old comrades offered them jobs. New ties that bind, in place of a home. When you're young, you're always making it, there's always time...
...bottle rocket wars in shopping center parking lots after midnight. Old times. Then the new year was on them and they left. New safety nets kept sliding underneath them: friends typed their theses, roommates fronted them money, parents kept in touch, old comrades offered them jobs. New ties that bind, in place of a home. When you're young, you're always making it, there's always time...
...doctors have had little help out of this bind, since few precise tests have been generally available to tell them if and how well the body will respond to a prescribed drug. But aid may now finally...
...simple blood test that should be especially useful in treating the nation's estimated 2 million to 5 million schizophrenics. Already tested on 30 patients, it is based on pioneering studies of the brain's receptors, or molecular sites to which its own drug-like chemicals bind-almost as if they were keys in a lock. A blood sample from a patient is added to a tube containing animal brain tissue and a radioactively tagged chemical known to bind to particular receptors. Whatever drug is in the patient's blood displaces the test chemical at these sites...
Stokey refused to say whether there were other candidates left over from the last search that the school might turn to. She added that "the time bind is not as bad as it might seem. Even if Professor Thompson had accepted, he might not have been able to come for next September...