Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children have their own deck--with slides and play areas. (Parents are given pagers to allow them contact with the kid zone.) Teenagers meet for coffee and schmoozing at a jukebox joint called Common Grounds. (And that's teens only, please; two middle-age interlopers were gently escorted out.) As for the grownups, they can dine in a no-kids restaurant--Palo, with decent Northern Italian cuisine--or visit an adults-only comedy club, Off Beat, where the humor is saucy but not blue. No Mickey Viagra gags; after all, this is a Disney ship...
...drug scandal may have been an embarrassment to France, but nobody who reads the sports pages could have been terribly surprised. Performance-boosting drugs, once considered the specialty of shady East-bloc coaches, are becoming as common as Gatorade. Even as the Tour de France was sputtering along last week, two U.S. athletes, Olympic gold-medal shotputter Randy Barnes and sprinter Dennis Mitchell, were suspended by the International Amateur Athletic Federation on suspicion of "doping...
...tell if your daughter is on steroids? That can be tricky. Two of the most common side effects--acne and mood swings--are also hallmarks of normal adolescence. Most young women take steroids not to develop bulky muscles but rather to increase their strength and endurance, which are harder to spot. Look for a subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them...
...patients who suffer from the most common type of lung cancer, postoperative radiation therapy is often a routine part of treatment. But a study published last week urges re-evaluation of this practice, showing that radiation actually raises the relative risk of death 21% and that its effects are most detrimental for those in the early stages of the illness, pushing survival chances below...
Lyme disease can be treated, but the common tick-borne illness has never quite been preventable. Two new vaccines using genetically engineered bacteria have been proved effective in protecting adults against Lyme disease. Both await FDA approval, and at least one is expected to be available for next summer's Lyme-disease season. Vaccine tests for children are still in the works...