Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those suffering from Clinton fatigue, New York is getting a high dose right now," he says...
...joys of childhood are timeless: Swing sets, birthday parties... the occasional school-wide outbreak of head lice. It used to be that a quick dose of a foul-smelling mixture called permethrin (Nix, Rid) and a fierce comb-through were enough to annihilate the bloodsucking pests and their eggs, but now those days of relative ease may be over. According to the results of a Harvard University study of 75 lice-infested children, some lice are no longer susceptible to over-the-counter medicines traditionally recommended by pediatricians. And so kids who come home with a case of head lice...
...kids with lice in Borneo. In Borneo, where few or no pesticides are used, lice were killed very quickly by an application of permethrin. In Boise and Boston, the lice were far more resistant to the pesticide, having been exposed to the chemicals before." Horowitz notes that an increased dose of the lice-killer in Borneo destroyed the parasites faster, whereas an increased dose in Boise and Boston did nothing to expedite the lice?s decline. While no new medical treatments are on the immediate horizon, parents are taking matters into their own hands. The emergence of the Super Lice...
...associates may be carrying on his work in their state. A year ago, DONNA BRENNAN, 54, was found dead in her Rio Rancho, N.M., home. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, but an autopsy revealed she died from a lethal dose of pentobarbital. A neighbor told police that the morning Brennan died, she had been visited by a man named George. The authorities identified him as GEORGES REDING, 74, a retired Galesburg, Mich., psychiatrist and an associate of Kevorkian...
...associates may be carrying on his work in their state. A year ago, Donna Brennan, 54, was found dead in her Rio Rancho, N.M., home. She had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, but an autopsy revealed she died from a lethal dose of pentobarbital. A neighbor told police that the morning Brennan died, she had been visited by a man named George. The authorities identified him as Georges Reding, 74, a retired Galesburg, Mich., psychiatrist and an associate of Kevorkian...