Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Bill Clinton and Bill Gates played golf on Martha's Vineyard a few years ago, they didn't click. The President gave Gates a heavy dose of the Clinton Treatment, oozing charm and seeking emotional common ground in the fact that both had recently lost their mothers. Clinton must have been disappointed by the cool response of Gates, who saw the subject as unduly personal. Gates, for his part, was put off that Clinton didn't engage him on his favorite topic, technology. When the golfing ended, the two men went their separate ways. Gates didn't take sides...
...Sosa, who blew kisses to the crowd and nearly broke into a home run trot around the House Chamber. All other honorees took Madonna's advice and struck a pose, or at least stuck to one. The Desert Fox serviceperson looked like he had recently taken a double dose of Prozac. As for Dan Glickman, well, you can't blame a Secretary of Agriculture for looking like he's never been on television before...
...international community has responded with the requisite dose of public protestations, but you can be sure that the average Kosovan isn't holding their breath waiting for NATO warplanes to come to their rescue...
...everyone. And it takes a healthy dose of courage to make the decision. But a new and highly regarded study published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that women with a high risk of breast cancer can reduce the risk of getting the disease by 90 percent by having both breasts surgically removed before the disease appears. While the study is good news, says TIME health reporter Janice Horowitz, "it places high-risk but healthy women in a horrible dilemma...
Gene therapists are looking even further ahead. Pennsylvania's Wilson predicts that the next advance will be a mechanism built into the vector to regulate the expression of a therapeutic gene, turning it on or off. "Most diseases and most drugs require modifying the dose," he explains, "but the genes carried into cells by currently used vectors are either...