Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bizarre kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford, Michigan...
...woman, who says she needed "a far more intense dose of help" than ECHO could provide, praised...
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping...
Still, the subjects of some authoritarian governments would welcome a healthy dose of human-rights diplomacy, however faint. Says Egyptian analyst Tahsin Bashir: "It would be beneficial if Arab rulers realized the U.S. is not going to be an automatic safety net for every corrupt and incompetent regime in the region." Should Washington push too far, on the other hand, it might give militant Islamism, a movement distinctly untested in democratic virtues, entree to power. And a pronounced U.S. tilt back to Israel in the Middle East talks risks sending Syria and the Palestinians packing at a time when...
...there are "loads of data on men and none on women. That only increased the impression that this was a man's disease." It also resulted in therapies and procedures appropriate for men but not necessarily beneficial to women. A landmark study showed, for instance, that a small daily dose of aspirin helps prevent heart attacks in men, but no one knows if the same is true for women...