Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Researchers looking for mutant strands of DNA in skin-cancer cells have discovered a gene that may be at the root of many -- if not most -- cancers, including such major types as lung, breast, brain, bone, bladder, kidney, ovary and lymphocyte. In healthy tissue, the gene acts as a brake on runaway cell division. Scientists hope that by replacing damaged genes with healthy ones, they may someday be able to prevent many types of cancer...
...fire department can finally save someone. Firemen extract maintenance worker Salvador Pena from a street sweeper he was operating in the now collapsed garage of the Northridge mall, not far from the Meadows. Some slabs of concrete are airlifted off him; others are pushed away with a huge inflatable bladder. The process takes about four hours; then he is free. His legs are crushed, but he will survive. Says a fireman: "It feels so good...
...anorexia is the external decomposition of the body. This emaciation reaches such a level that anorexics lose their ability to carry themselves or perform many of the bodily functions healthy humans perform each day: breathing or walking, for example. In addition, anorexics develop serious gastrinal problems, diabetes and gall-bladder diseases...
TRIHALOMETHANES: Ironically, these compounds are by-products of the chlorine used to kill waterborne pathogens. The N.R.D.C. estimates that these chemicals may cause more than 10,000 bladder and rectal cancers a year...
...football is a spheroid, measuring 11 to 11-1/4 inches long, with a short circumference of 21 to 21-1/4 inches and a long circumference of 26-1/2 to 28 inches. It is constructed of a rubber bladder inflated to 12-1/2 to 13-1/2 pounds per square inch, and it weighs 14 to 15 ounces...