Word: excessions
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...partly blocking an enzyme found in the liver that turns some of the foods you eat into cholesterol. (We couldn't live without some cholesterol; the body uses it to stabilize cell membranes and to manufacture many hormones.) To make up the shortfall, the body draws on the excess cholesterol found in the blood...
...week. But the A.H.A.'s expert panel wasn't ready to declare that taking omega-3 all by itself, in pill form, will protect your heart. It's just too easy to get more omega-3 than you need from pills, and the panel was worried that an excess could trigger serious side effects, such as internal bleeding...
HUPD became involved in the case two weeks ago, when a UIS employee reported someone had tried to pick up three laptop computers and one desktop computer valued in excess of $12,000 that he had ordered using a credit card. The man could not produce proper identification, and fled when the desk clerk turned his back, the caller reported...
...Madame Tussaud. The format brought out the worst in him. Put him in front of a podium and out of his Dockers, and he reverts to his smartest-guy-in-the-class mode, impressing the teacher with factoids for extra credit, like Serbia plus Montenegro equals Yugoslavia. His excess verbiage actually detracts from the more important point that he would be better handling the crisis in Serbia...
...ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...