Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While patients like these are rare, their cases raise interesting questions. Could it be that the HIV spikes function as booster shots, priming the body's immune system to rally against the virus? Already, several aids-research teams have begun systematically weaning a few patients off their cocktail therapies to see whether the brief drug holidays might somehow be stretched into a permanent vacation...
Although sophomore Deepak Abraham lost in the No. 1 game, the win is a nice confidence-booster as the team heads to Penn this Saturday. AMHERST 1 HARVARD...
Nevertheless, at the elementary school, principal David Thompson is an unabashed Benz booster. When the school needed extra buses to transport pupils to the ballet, Thompson said, Mercedes provided them. And when the car company learned the school was mounting a production of Hansel and Gretel, it dispatched several of its expats to help the pupils learn German songs. The experience made a lasting impression on the students. As Thompson put it, "They couldn't tell you your multiplication tables if you asked them. If you say, 'What's 9 times 7?', they probably have already forgotten it. But they...
What I am experiencing is a rite of passage to which native East Coasters have already been well weathered. Those from Massachusetts, New York and Minnesota know what to expect. Their blood has been thickening since their first snow storm. And like the booster shots given at such an early age you can't remember the pain of prodding needles, they cannot even remember the painful experience. I, on the other hand, with my thin blood and unfamiliarity with this "layering" of clothes idea, am more than mature enough to remember whatever pain and nuisance I am soon to experience...
While The Wrap offers one free Purpose withevery 20-ounce smoothie, and additional ones at 50cents each, Cafe Gaia will charge 50 cents foreach Booster, including the first