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...seemed confined to his sometimes painfully swollen left leg. The announcement that a clot had evidently passed through his heart and lodged in his right lung suggested that his life may indeed have been imperiled by his condition, if only momentarily. But the presence of such obstructions in the bloodstream is far more common than was generally realized only a few years ago and it is now evident that in only relatively few cases are they truly dangerous...
...chilling prospect of a revived drug network delivering its small packets of white powder back into the bloodstream of the nation's cities has caused the House Foreign Affairs Committee to call a meeting this month. The prime topic: a bill to suspend the $236 million military-and economic-aid program to Turkey unless poppy growing is halted. But such retaliation is unlikely. Turkish officials have already suggested that if U.S. aid is cut off, the country will consider removal of the 24 American military installations based there as part of the NATO defense system...
...scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This feeds directly into the bloodstream, the equivalent of a week's exposure to asbestos at an area of high industrial exposure. Injections are a frightening form for the exposure to take, in light of the fact that mesothelioma and other miscellaneous tumors, or neoplasms, have been induced in rats by arterial injection of asbestos fibers...
Almost immediately after it hits the stomach, alcohol is Almost immediately after it hits the stomach, alcohol is coursing through the bloodstream to the central nervous system, where it starts to slow down, or anaesthetize, brain activity. Though it is a depressant, the initial subjective feeling that it creates is just the opposite, as the barriers of self-control and restraint are lifted and the drinker does or says things that his well-trained, sober self usually forbids. Only later, after a number of drinks, are the motor centers of the brain overtly affected, causing uncertain steps and hand movements...
...total quantity of alcohol in a drink and the rate of consumption determine the alcohol level in the bloodstream. Thus a Scotch and water would pack the same punch as Scotch on the rocks or a Scotch and soda if all three were drunk at the same speed; drinking more slowly gives the system a chance to eliminate some of the alcohol. The mixing of different types-beer, wine, whisky and brandy, for instance-might make a drinker sick, but it would not make him any more drunk than the same alcoholic measure of just one of these drinks...