Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some are patently dangerous. The drug has caused significant, possibly permanent brain damage in lab animals--though not, as far as anyone knows, in humans. It can trigger a rare but frequently fatal human disorder called primary pulmonary hypertension, which destroys blood vessels in the lungs and heart. European research on fen/phen shows that using such drugs for more than three months boosts the risk of pph from the normal 1 or 2 in 1 million patients to 18 in 1 million. A study published three weeks ago in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests the rate is actually...
This summer an FDA advisory panel recommended that RU 486, a French oral contraceptive, be approved for use in the U.S. More than 200,000 European women have used RU 486, which induces an abortion in 95% of cases. To be effective, the drug--actually two different pills--must be taken within the first seven weeks of pregnancy. A small number of women using RU 486 reported uterine bleeding and severe cramping that required pain medication...
LITERATURE AND ARTS C-22--Professor of Medieval Latin and Comparative Literature Jan M. Ziolkowski came to class yesterday at noon seeking to make shoppers eager buyers of the Medieval European culture...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...
...West--produced and directed by a Burns protege, Stephen Ives, but overseen by Burns as executive producer--is both more restrained and more resonant: a sweeping, thoughtful, often moving look at America's conquest of the West, from the early European explorers to the dawn of the 20th century. PBS is airing the series on eight nights over the next two weeks, smack in the middle of the networks' well-hyped fall premieres. (Little, Brown has also published a handsome companion book.) It's a mission that might seem as foolhardy as Custer's, but The West has much...