Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who missed the latest issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, a finding that is odd but demonstrably true: men run the greatest risk of dying shortly before their birthday, while women tend to die in the week just after. The biological reason is unclear, but speculation is focusing on the possible connection between mental state and physical health -- and no wonder, since the study was done in California. The increased risk is small enough that no one should worry, say the experts -- but to be safe, don't schedule major elective surgery for that time of year...
There is, thank goodness, one germ from this burgeoning music scene that neither die-hards nor preppies have tarnished: Alice in Chains. Their name implies unmarketable brashness, and the Chains made that implication a reality on their first album, Facelift, and have reincarnated this same as yet unrecognized talent for their second outing, Dirt...
Well, the real theme is not so much the ecological qualities of the brown crumbly stuff as the internment value of it. For example "Rain When I Die," "Down in a Hole" and "Them Bones" all express the rather somber motif elicited by the Chain crew...
...hawkish image" would benefit his 1972 election campaign, and he portrays Kissinger as having acquired a coroner's callousness toward the victims of geopolitics. According to Isaacson, Kissinger told Gerald Ford's press secretary on the eve of Saigon's fall in 1975, "Why don't these people die fast? The worst thing that could happen is for them to linger...
...starve for oxygen. The starving tissues trigger a distress signal that summons leukocytes and other members of the body's damage-control team, which begin to destroy distressed cells. Alas, if the signal stays on too long, cells are killed at a phenomenal rate and major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma teams are rushing to the rescue. Each year 25% of the shock victims who make it to the emergency room are revived only to die later. "It seems evolution never intended for someone to be resuscitated after shock," says John Harlan, head of hematology...