Word: dose
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...third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper Libération. But she hadn't done it. The dose left Vincent in a coma, but failed to kill him. Within hours, the police had arrested her, and doctors had hooked her son up to artificial life support. A three-year nightmare had become darker still...
...forces had to do something, of course. The insurgents' Ramadaan offensive has seen three U.S. helicopters shot down, a daily dose of ambushes and audacious and high profile guerrilla and terror strikes, and upward of 60 coalition troops killed within the past two weeks alone. No military force is going to absorb upward of 30 attacks a day week after week without hitting back hard in order to reassert its deterrent capability. The problem facing U.S. troops in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle, however, is that the enemy is largely invisible, and unless the civilian population is willing to blow...
...Price per day of AIDS drugs for each patient in 13 developing countries, thanks to a deal negotiated by Bill Clinton. Previously a patient's daily dose cost...
Handelsman and other researchers are using a dose of the hormone progestin to turn off sperm production. The problem is that this also suppresses testosterone production. So in order to avoid unpleasant side effects like lethargy and sexual dysfunction, most recent trials also gave men testosterone supplements. In Australia the men were injected every three months with progestin, and every four months they received a small testosterone implant under the skin of the belly, according to the study, published in the October Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism...
...until 2006, but if it were held now, a recent Forsa Polling Institute survey found, the CDU/CSU would win 51% of the vote, compared to 25% for Schröder's Social Democratic Party. The irony is that the CDU/CSU's proposed reforms are basically a stronger dose of Schröder's medicine. This is the dark side of the Third Way's embrace of fiscal rectitude. As Schröder's troubles show, economic reality leaves politicians precious little wiggle room, and parties have to think twice before promising to bail out troubled companies or increase spending...