Word: clump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worried first-years can take heart. Though the networks seem impenetrable and intimidating, that's not always the case. Often, people who know each other only cursorily will clump together during the first few weeks, seeming like longtime buddies...
HAPPY HEARTS The antidepressant Zoloft may be good for the heart as well as the soul. A preliminary report suggests that Zoloft thins blood in depressed patients. That's especially helpful because depressed folks seem to have blood platelets that clump together more readily--a major risk factor for heart attack. Indeed, after taking Zoloft for six weeks, patients ended up with platelets comparable to those of folks with no sign of the blues...
Another terrific thing that Outlook gave us: a better bozo filter. Filters, as you probably know, allow us to clump together e-mail when it arrives. I have filters that separate into different folders mail to TIME magazine, TIME DAILY and Lunch-L, a mailing list I set up for the six friends I used to dine with every day when I was a newspaper reporter. Outlook went even further by adding a simple bozo filter, which allows me to click on any message, select "Junk Mail" from a drop-down menu, and banish to the slag heap for eternity...
...this aquarium light rises diagonally across the picture: a bath, like an immense open oyster, in which floats the body of a woman, all legs, shining indistinctly in the water. She seems in a trance--her face can't be read as a face but more as a spongy clump of jeweled paint. She is as indifferent as coral, not posing but tenderly spied...
HOPE FOR HUNTINGTON'S Paving the way for new treatments, scientists have discovered that the disease kills brain cells by causing an insoluble clump of protein to form in the cell nucleus...