Word: frailing
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...Olympic all-around gold. (Her 2000 campaign ran aground when the vault was accidentally set at the wrong height.) Now 25, she knew this was her last shot. The two women's styles could not have been more different - Khorkina, so ethereal she at times looked too frail for the demands of gymnastics; Patterson, throwing herself at the apparatuses as if they were no more than tree houses put there for her to play in. Khorkina looked unbeatable on the uneven bars, but gave Patterson an opening when she wobbled noticeably on the balance beam and only performed three tumbling...
...myostatin, a compound that inhibits IGF-1 activity in the muscle. The pharmaceutical maker Wyeth Ayerst is testing a myostatin blocker in early trials of healthy humans, and hopes that it may become a new treatment option for those with muscular dystrophy or for the elderly who have become frail from the normal muscle wasting that occurs with aging...
AILING. MARY-KATE OLSEN, 18, former child star who, with her fraternal twin sister Ashley, helms a billion-dollar entertainment and fashion empire; from an eating disorder. The once healthy 5-ft. 2-in. tween queen has recently become startlingly frail, and was admitted to an undisclosed treatment facility...
...adult child often instigates a move because a parent is too frail or demented to live alone, she says. But the transition may be so upsetting that it triggers depression in an elderly person, requiring medication or counseling. And older adults with difficult personalities--those who are overly needy, self-centered, controlling or anxious--may require extra nurturing and understanding during a major transition...
...leader wants to go on record renouncing the organization's strident charter, especially the hard-liners who now dominate Hamas' board of directors. But last summer founder Sheik Yassin, in his elliptical way, sketched out for me how Hamas might consider a more accommodating solution. The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house. His high-treble voice was so faint I had to lean awkwardly close to hear. But he remained the movement's ultimate authority. While he leveled boiler-plate criticism at the "racist" Israeli...