Word: dosing
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After convincingly winning its first two games of the season, the Harvard women's field hockey team got a dose of its own medicine yesterday in Durham...
...ABOUT this time next year, your daily bowl of Frosted Flakes may be suffering from a healthy dose of radiation, and your apple pie may be irradiated as well. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently proposed permitting companies to irradiate fruits, vegetables, and grains to kill insects. The plan, which is still up for public comment, would also raise the maximum permitted radiation dosage for the treatment of spices, which only last year were approved for the radiation therapy...
Still, Nobel Economics Laureate James Tobin, an outspoken Keynesian, can persuasively describe the current boom as _ mainly a result of deficit spending. Far from being a supply-side victory, he says, the recovery represents "an accidental and classic Keynesian dose of fiscal and monetary stimuli...
...Kansas City at the same time. The minister has known Michael Jackson, 25, and his brothers for years. And after taking in the show, he dropped by the hotel suite of Promoter Don King, 52, for some barbecue and a little talk about such shared experiences as getting a dose of bad press and their responsibility as symbols for black Americans. "It was said for a while that the only way you could appeal to the masses was to be decadent, but that's not true," observed the candidate. "No dope-oriented album ever sold as much as Thriller...
...Harvard Researcher Beecher found that sugar pills work one-third of the time in treating conditions ranging from headache and seasickness to wound pain. Levine and Fields of U.C.S.F. have reported that a placebo was capable of mimicking the effect of four to six milligrams of morphine, a mild dose, in patients suffering the pain of tooth extractions. U.C.S.F. researchers have also shown that the placebo effect is partly due to the stimulation of the body's endorphin system. When the action of endorphins is inhibited (by using a powerful opiate-blocking agent), placebos may not work...