Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind-numbing, and my inclinations towards independence sometimes chaffed against parental supervision. But what I didn't realize then, and what I have come to believe now, is that life only gets worse. Sure, college comes with its fair share of perks, but it also delivers a remarkably robust dose of crap. All things considered, high school, especially that second semester of senior year, is the top of the hill...
...Kevorkian had no real defense. The videotape clearly showed him injecting the lethal dose into Youk, and the judge told the jury that sympathy for either the patient or the doctor was no excuse. Prosecutor John Skrzynski was unrelenting in plucking the feathers of the self-described angel of mercy. He called Kevorkian "a medical hit man in the night with a bag of poison to do his job." And he said, "There are 11 million souls buried in Europe that can tell you that when you make euthanasia a state policy, some catastrophic things can evolve from that...
This softener has been used for more than 40 years with no validated scientific evidence of adverse health effects in people. The Consumers Union study you cited found that migration levels of the softener used in food wrap are actually 1,000 times lower than the dose levels at which any health effect was observed in laboratory animals...
...cancer, heart disease and stroke aren't enough to scare you off smoking, maybe this will. A study of 4,000 Danish men shows that mothers who smoke a pack or more a day are twice as likely to produce criminally violent sons. There even appears to be a dose response: those who smoked fewer cigarettes had less violent boys. Why the correlation? No one is sure, but chemicals in smoke may somehow damage the fetal brain...
...double dose of Ms. McBeal. In the first show, Ally (Calista Flockhart) lands in jail for wearing short skirts, Elaine makes condoms with customized phrases ("Take a number" for Ally), and Elaine's friend files suit against a feminist mag after being fired for being Baptist. In the second show, Ally lands in jail again for getting into a sidewalk scuffle (she does a spin kick!), a terrible unisex bathroom accident befalls Stefan, Cage's pet frog, and Ally represents a woman being sued for throwing her best friend into a garbage canister...