Word: churn
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...trophic-or growth-factors, that help neurons and other cells develop. If the brains of Parkinson’s patients could be fortified with additional trophic doses, many scientists believe, damaged neurons might be reawakened or repaired. While there is some thought in the medical community about engineering genes to churn out the substances, the pharmaceutical industry is taking a more direct approach...
...process of invention is an endless churn of activity that has little respect for the calendar. But in an effort to celebrate what has become a binge of industrial and scientific creativity around the world, the editors of TIME have locked the creative achievements of the year 2000 into freeze-frame and selected three Inventions of the Year. They are from the areas of CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL SCIENCE and BASIC INDUSTRY...
...know what I never said to you during our divorce?" "That you'll take less money?" The couples-therapy repartee in this Broadway comedy harks back to the old Neil Simon, the one who used to churn out hits. But the new Neil Simon needs one desperately, so here he tries grafting Plaza Suite onto No Exit. Six people arrive separately at a Paris restaurant in response to a mysterious dinner invitation; all are divorced couples, it turns out, who proceed to hash over their failed marriages. Despite the energizing presence of TV vets John Ritter and Henry Winkler...
Laura Stover took her daughter Karen to a specialist when the girl began growing pubic hair at age 5. The doctor put Karen through a battery of blood tests to rule out ovarian tumors (which can force glands to churn out puberty-triggering hormones). But there was no apparent medical problem, and by age 8, Karen had full pubic growth. "We didn't allow her to go to any slumber parties," says Stover. "Or to change bathing suits in front of other children...
...good heart. But he had a true fan in Jones, helped in part by the fact that Dickens was one of the more welcoming stars on hand when the Possum made his Opry debut in 1956. And so when Jones was under pressure in the early '60s to churn out record after record for his new label, United Artists, he chose to do a tribute to Dickens. He has paid several complete-disc homages to other singers (Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Leon Payne among them), but this one, originally released in 1964, is the most successful. Maybe because...