Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some herpetics regularly consume buttermilk, vitamins, herbs or lysine, an amino acid that is said to help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure...
...theory of the world ether--an invisible, all-permeating medium for the propagation of radiation--Jakob sees his calling and the chance for a crowning accomplishment of classical physics. But he fails to realize this dream...
...accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible for a man who had made habitual use of cocaine part of his onstage act. They said that Pryor had been "freebasing"-mixing coke with ether to produce a more concentrated substance, a high with a mule kick-when the ether exploded...
Although video freaks may think of themselves as space-age ham operators, innocently tuning in on whatever signals bounce about in the ether, satellite programmers consider them electronic buccaneers and mutter darkly about "tapping," "free-lunching" and "unauthorized reception." Among the toughest in its stance has been Time Inc.'s Home Box Office, whose chief counsel, John Redpath, says the company is considering "all possible alternatives to stop" unofficial signal reception...
...demonic and divine natures of music. The results have been gloriously inconclusive. But in the past hundred years scholars have plodded to an unassailable truth: whether it overheats the blood or soothes the savage breast, music is one of history's great growth industries. Technology has electrified the ether: since Edison and Marconi, listeners have increased a billionfold. There is scarcely an Aleut or Patagonian today who cannot flick on a transistor against the shriek of icy winds...