Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...messenger that plays a critical role in sleep, mood, depression and anxiety. They have also discerned five different receptor subtypes for dopamine, a neurotransmitter thought to be involved in schizophrenia. By formulating compounds that selectively bind to particular dopamine receptors, for example, drug designers can craft schizophrenia drugs that curb hallucinations without triggering disabling Parkinsonian symptoms...
...body turns against itself, they are exploring some promising prospects for relief. One involves mimicking the activity that dampens the immune system in pregnant women, allowing their bodies to adjust to the presence of the foreign fetus. Some doctors believe repeated vaccinations of properly prepared foreign cells will curb the immune reaction enough to hinder the inflammation of arthritis. Other researchers are genetically engineering cells to inject directly into knuckles, above, where they can "teach" the immune system to stop attacking the body's own cartilage...
TOKIN' FLO! Florence Nightingale attended seances and took drugs. In an 1887 letter found in the attic of an antiques dealer, Nightingale says she took bromide, which was given to soldiers to curb libido...
...official trip abroad he chose Iran. Acting Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff telephoned Ankara to warn him that he was defying Washington's campaign to isolate Tehran for its sponsorship of international terrorism. Just a week before, President Clinton had signed with great fanfare a new sanctions bill to curb major investments in Iran and its fellow rogue state Libya. But Erbakan went to Tehran, and last week he upped the affront by endorsing a contract to buy $23 billion worth of Iranian...
...high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness in the choice of some lightweight material on the album (MCG/ Curb), and her singing sometimes is closer to the full-throttle glottal attack of Brenda Lee, a precocious stylist of the Cline years, than to Patsy herself. That's O.K., though--Rimes, who turns 14 later this month, is still a work in progress. Her voice already works handsomely...