Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was an element of miscommunication," Chen said. "They made [the jobs] seem much easier to get than they actually...
Although alcohol is a central element of the initiation, she adds, team members who do not want to drink do not have to and the choice to abstain is respected...
...very skilled, yet we're not making the connection. We've had plenty of opportunities. Some element is missing...
...really the work with patients that captures her. This summer she set up a camp in Manajang, Sudan, where the airstrip was so overgrown that the pilot was terrified of landing. In control once again, she seemed back in her element. There was no one to hold her back from healing the sick. On a recent night at around 10, a loud, flailing sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother...
...first glance, these stories seem completely unrelated--three profoundly different disorders treated with three different drugs. Yet all three medications have one crucial element in common: they target the brain chemical serotonin. Though serotonin has been known to researchers for nearly a half-century, only in recent years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia...