Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently reverses some signs of aging by changing the body's composition. Some 80% of a young adult's body consists of so-called lean body mass -- muscles, organs and bone -- and the remaining 20% is made up of fatty, or adipose, tissue. But after age 30 the muscles begin to atrophy, the skin thins out and lean body mass is replaced by adipose tissue at an average rate of 5% a decade. By age 70 the balance between fat and lean may be fifty-fifty...
When the news of Poindexter's sentence ran through the capital, some of his former White House colleagues were in black tie at the President's Dinner, the Republican Party's grandest Washington fund raiser. "I felt sick," said one. "There was not a criminal bone in his body. He was doing what he thought his Commander in Chief wanted. He got a jail term for political incompetence. Since when is that a felony...
...blame Harvard. Had the pre-med courses been a little bit more difficult, I would have dropped the sequence and wound up a VES major. Right now, I would be preparing for a career in chicken-bone sculpture. My only concern would be decreasing the number of aesthetic dissonances in my life...
...good word. "A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity." Some of her lighter excursions are to Maine, the inspiration of some lovely, limpid nature writing -- about picking blueberries "the color/ of distances, of drowning," or a day of "bone-white splendor,/ a slow surf filleting the blue...
...ethical dilemmas of creating a child donor could have been avoided if a suitable non-sibling donor had been available. Experts urge that more money and public-education efforts be devoted to expanding the national registry of potential bone-marrow donors...