Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraqis proved how simple it was, beginning in 1989 with the production of anthrax--bacteria that cause deadly hemorrhaging in the brain and chest--at the Al Hakam Single Cell Protein Production Plant. In the mid-1980s, before the U.S. belatedly banned such dangerous exports, Iraq's Education Ministry ordered 70 packages of microbes and toxins from the American Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says...
...Wang Dan, 28, a leader of the 1989 uprising that was brutally suppressed in Tiananmen Square; he is serving an 11-year term. Like Wei, Wang is reportedly ill, enduring stomach pains stemming from a nerve disorder. Family members say they've been told he may have a brain tumor, but that his jailers won't allow a CAT scan. Chinese officials say he's faking the illnesses...
...Most of its patients--couples, mainly, but also single women--are here on this crisp, bright autumn day because they have tried in vain to have babies the old-fashioned way. Now they hope that medical science can help them satisfy that most basic of instincts, programmed into the brain and body by millions of years of evolution: the urge to bear children...
...greatest unknown, from a scientific point of view, is raloxifene's effect on the brain. The drug is known to increase the number of hot flashes, which are usually triggered by the brain's attempts to deal with falling hormone levels. This suggests that raloxifene might act as an antiestrogen in the brain. Recent studies have shown that estrogen may provide some protection against dementia and other types of nerve disorders. Therefore, taking raloxifene for long periods of time could theoretically increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease...
...will about the Internet and the wonders of multimedia. At the end of the day, most people still prefer to leave their brain at the office and morph themselves into couch potatoes--watching Michael Jordan dazzle opponents or Mel Gibson vanquish villains. In the battle for home- entertainment supremacy, the den is no match for the living room...