Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed exertion -- with nearly every move they make. They also go through extensive workouts that include two-mile runs on a treadmill. Throughout their missions cosmonauts stay on a diet designed to keep physical deterioration to a minimum. Romanenko's doctors say he lost at most 5% of his bone calcium, while other cosmonauts, although weightless for shorter periods, have suffered far higher losses. The cosmonaut added that he did not feel there would be "any limitations" to enduring longer missions in space...
Michael Bungo, director of the Space Biomedical Research Institute at Houston's Johnson Space Center, is not so sure. "This is just one test case," he says. "The margin of error is considerable." The validity of the 5% figure, Bungo believes, also depends on whether bone-marrow testing was done at the preferred point -- the spine -- or at the heel bone, which he says the Soviets have done in the past. Besides, while total calcium loss may have been low, he is concerned that there still may be structural changes in Romanenko's bones that could make them more prone...
...million miles a year, inspiring the troops and scouting new acquisitions. The guy never rests, and when he does, he pays for it. Three weeks ago, while on a rare vacation with his wife and two children in Antigua, Drabinsky broke his arm, "totally, right through." A quick bone grafting and plate insertion, and he was back in business. "It hurts, sure," he says, "but I like...
...Addis Ababa. In 1985 and 1986 the rains were good for the first time since 1981. Though hunger persisted, no one was starving. When the rains came on schedule last June, it looked as if the nation would have a third year of good luck. But July was bone dry -- not a drop of water the entire month. Stubbornly hopeful, farmers replanted. In August the rain sputtered, then, late in the month, stopped. The crops withered and died...
Abusive behavior can range from intense psychological intimidation -- threats to limit physical freedom, withhold money or even kill family pets -- to bone-shattering physical violence. Worse, in about half to two-thirds of such cases, the mayhem spreads to children in the family. The death of seven- year-old Lisa Steinberg in New York City last month is widely believed to have been a result of beating by one or both of her adoptive parents. Experts think such violence is caused by stress, a history of abuse or an obsessive need for control. Says Author Fedders: "Rich men like...