Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soccer at Central Conn...
...will face four non-conference opponents-beginning tomorrow against Central Connectioncut-before facing off against Cornell on October 18. In between the team journeys to the Golden State to face Stanford and California before returning to Cambridge for a game against Boston University...
...IRSA's corporate headquarters in a three-story, neoclassical-style building overlooking the Plaza de Mayo in central Buenos Aires, the atmosphere is relaxed. Since Elsztain snapped it up in 1991, the company has grown from three employees to 110. Under Elsztain's supervision, they handle property selection and investment decisions, turning over architectural and construction contracts to outsiders. So far, IRSA has focused mainly on urban property, but Cresud, the agricultural real estate company owned by the same principals, has invested in 850,000 acres of farmland around the country...
...growing awareness of serotonin's central role in mood and emotion has been paralleled--and in some cases driven--by a boom in drugs that target serotonin more or less specifically. Among them are such popular antidepressants as Elavil, Prozac, Zoloft and the hot new herbal medication St. John's wort; powerful appetite suppressants including Redux and fenfluramine; and antipsychotics such as clozapine. Like every other drug, the ones that zero in on serotonin have side effects. Elavil makes people sleepy. Zoloft can trigger headache and nausea. Zoloft and Prozac may cause sexual dysfunction. All these symptoms are annoying...
...stocks are doing O.K., but my gene portfolio took a big hit recently. Doctors at Johns Hopkins announced that they have discovered a genetic mutation in Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. Ashkenazi Jews are those with roots in Central and Eastern Europe. That covers most Jewish Americans, including me. Only 6% of Ashkenazi Jews are thought to carry the defective gene, but that's enough to make it, according to the New York Times, "the most common known cancer gene in a particular population." And colon cancer is just one disease for which Ashkenazi Jews seem...