Word: dose
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Still, I wonder if we're not reaching a time when artistic skill must be matched with a minimum dose of responsibility. We live in a very violent society, one in which every passing day seems to bring a new atrocity, previously unthinkable...
...Haitians, such abuses under the nose of the Americans who had come to rescue them were a shocking dose of the treatment they have endured ever since the 1991 coup forced Aristide from power. As the U.S. soldiers watched and did nothing, Haitian onlookers became increasingly perplexed and hostile. "I know you guys are working hard," shouted one man to troops sitting on a wall. "But people here are suffering." The inaction only heightened the suspicion of collusion. "How could the United States be so stupid?" another demanded. "For months you call these men thugs, murderers, thieves and drug dealers...
...little dose of relativity on the old game clock might have given the Crimson a victory against the Providence Friars...
While most of these reports involve heavy doses of chemicals, evidence from laboratory studies suggests there are also effects at lower concentrations. Endocrinologist David Crews has discovered, for example, that small PCB doses can dramatically influence the ratio of male to female offspring in red-eared slider turtles. When University of Wisconsin toxicologist Richard Peterson investigated the impact of dioxin on male rats, he found that the dose needed to cause reproductive-system problems was relatively high. "But when we exposed pregnant rats to a dose 1/100th as large," he says, "we found the male offspring showed signs of reproductive...
...People with viral infections sometimes demand antibiotics, even though the drugs are useless against viruses. This, too, weeds out whatever susceptible bacteria are lurking in their bodies and promotes the growth of their hardier brethren. In many countries, antibiotics are available over the counter, which lets patients diagnose and dose themselves, often inappropriately. And high-tech farmers have learned that mixing low doses of antibiotics into cattle feed makes the animals grow larger. (Reason: energy they would otherwise put into fighting infections goes | into gaining weight instead.) Bacteria in the cattle become resistant to the drugs, and when people drink...