Word: developed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold off competition's inevitable charge. The approach has roots in an earlier boom time. In the 1920s the nation's railroad firms consolidated in a vain attempt to stave off competition from cars. The phone companies--which think a large customer base will make it cheaper to develop and sell new services--believe this time will be different...
...STEROIDS The best-known performance boosters, these hormones (testosterone is one) signal the body to pump out more amino acids. Like creatine, they permit muscles to recover faster from tough workouts. But the side effects include elevated cholesterol, uncontrollable outbursts of anger, possibly liver disease and cancer. Men can develop low sperm counts. Women may grow hair on their faces, lose hair from their scalps, get acne, stop menstruating and see their breasts shrink. (See related story in PERSONAL TIME...
...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...
...intestines, which accounts for the bloody diarrhea that is the signature symptom of the infection. The toxin then passes into the bloodstream, where it probably damages vessels throughout the body. This produces gummy clots that clog organs like the kidneys. Up to 5% of all people with O157 infection develop a kidney condition known as hemolytic uremic syndrome; up to 5% of all HUS cases are fatal. The clotting caused by E. coli can also damage the heart, the lungs and even the central nervous system...
Wakayama's idea was truly crazy: he wanted to clone mice, long believed to be among the worst candidates for cloning because their egg cells are particularly delicate and their embryos develop so rapidly. He squeezed in the cloning work during his free time, carefully manipulating one type of mouse cell after another until, just months after Dolly was unleashed on the world, he succeeded in cloning the cumulus cells that surround the egg in the ovary. Wakayama's whimsical name for his new creation: Cumulina...