Word: dose
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...million doses should be given out a year,” he said. “In 2002, 95 million doses were produced, but companies only sold 83 million. At 10 dollars a dose, that’s over $100 million lost in revenue...
...often seem arbitrary, turning community- and art-making into a competitive social sport. But campus groups and Harvard itself need not give up their high standards to give up elitism or unnecessary selectivity. All we need to do is consider how high our standards can go without a good dose of openness—open-mindedness, accessibility, and inclusion of others not like...
...Federal surveys suggest that it's more like 26%, although if you include data on activities such as gardening and cleaning, as opposed to just recreational exercise, the figure jumps to about 45%. In short, somewhere from a quarter to half of Americans say they get the recommended dose of exercise, although the lower figure may be more trustworthy. People are notorious for lying about their exercise habits or, as the CDC puts it, for overreporting "socially desirable responses." Says Church, more succinctly: "My experience asking questions about exercise: they suck...
...babies, though, did much, much better. "Our oldest survivor is 6 1/2," says Escolar. "She's now running, jumping and doing well in school." Best of all, since the stem cells take up residence in the brain and reproduce there like native cells, it appears to take just one dose of the therapy to achieve whatever recovery is possible...
...spirit. “To those who knew him…the African adventure looked something like a death wish,” Zug writes. Ledyard only made it as far as Cairo. Suffering stomach pains, he took medication to induce vomiting. But he ingested too strong a dose, causing a blood vessel to burst. He died...