Word: dose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That would not matter if Washington were the capital of a tin-pot nation of little consequence; it does when it's the capital of the world's only superpower, on whose actions countless millions depend. It's not brains you need to figure that out but a small dose of common sense. Not much of that in evidence last week. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper/Washington, Peter Gumbel/Paris and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...once a car-repair shop. Today it houses an experimental farm run by CK Life Sciences International. CK's chief technology officer, S.F. Pang, ambles around the lush, green grounds, extolling the virtues of one of the company's most successful products, NutriSmart fertilizer. NutriSmart is superefficient--a dose one-third the size of conventional chemical fertilizers provides the same crop yield--and because it's organic, it doesn't harm the environment. But most important, Pang insists, NutriSmart makes produce taste better. "Absolutely delicious," he purrs as he savors a handful of cherry tomatoes...
...triggers a buildup of antibodies in the upper respiratory tract--flu's favorite point of entry. The catch: FluMist costs three to four times as much as the shot, and most health-insurance companies won't cover it. INVENTORS Hunein Maassab and MedImmune Vaccines AVAILABILITY Now, about $50 a dose TO LEARN MORE flumist.com...
Little Shop of Horrors benefited from its strong, enthusiastic cast. In his role as the rather nerdy Seymour, David V. Kimel ’05 scrunched, got clumsy and was generally funny, while Warren M. Tusk ’05 played the vaguely stereotypical shopkeeper Mushnik with the right dose of silliness; their dancing duet, “Mushnik & Son” (omitted from the film) was pretty funny...
...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...