Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blow, vertebrae are compressed, and if the force is great enough, fractured. The sheer force of the blow kills some nerves instantly. Then the compression causes electrical impulses traveling through nerve cells in the area to go haywire, and the overload causes many neurons to kill themselves. The dying nerve cells leak calcium, which attracts enzymes to the area that chew on the tissues. The by-products are free radicals, unstable compounds that scavenge oxygen from healthy cells, often destroying them. As these cells die, they trigger a secondary wave of destruction that sweeps from the injured area and radiates...
...thing for the central nervous system. It was explained to me that if the central nervous system of an animal were to regenerate, the animal would not have the speed and agility it once had, and would thus be easy prey. It is better for the animal to just die. Evolution decided that it's better not even to try." The challenge for medical science in finding a cure is that the body must be made to do what it was not made...
...they had to wait for his lungs to clear. The bottom part of both lungs had begun to fill with fluid. In the past, doctors had no way of removing that fluid, and the patient would die of pneumonia. "They clear the lungs through repeated suctioning," says Reeve. "They stick a tube right down into your lungs and pull out the liquid. You can't feel down to your lungs, but you can feel the tube go down your throat...
...death in 1963 prompted a slow fugue of commemorative albums (including a bizarre set of postmortem duets with the also deceased Jim Reeves) and the stately 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams, with Jessica Lange as Patsy. Now the singer has become a legend that won't die. There's Patsy Cline: The Birth of a Star (Razor & Tie records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks...
Gotti--prone here to declarations like, "I'd rather die broke than bleed my family to death!"--may have had different ideas about the Mob's purpose in life, but the filmmakers are so entranced by the sheer myth of him that they haven't bothered to explore what those ideas might be. Nor do the filmmakers try to make sense of Gotti's many paradoxes. Here was a man obsessed with rules, yet when one of his associates breaks a pre-eminent one by dealing drugs, Gotti does not toss him out; instead he visits him in the hospital...