Word: graying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Researchers are exploring the possibility that migraine sufferers are not just hypersensitive to various triggers but that their brains have lost some of their natural ability to suppress pain signals. To find out more, scientists are studying a part of the brain called the periaqueductal gray matter, which, says Dr. Welch in Kansas City, "switches off the pain response so that you can focus on the fight to survive. It's the reason why if you have a cut that you don't remember getting, it doesn't start to hurt until you actually look...
...Third Eye Blind lead singer is not known for shying away from any subject matter. But there is one thing which impresses the irascible musician: “Is it weird that you go to Harvard?” he asks, lounging in flip-flops, faded jeans and a gray sweater which elongate his thin frame. “Have you published yet? You better,” he says. “If you don’t go out and cure cancer, you’re fucked.” Jenkins then went on to imitate...
MARVEL COMICS: Created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby (and originally tinted gray), the Hulk is nuclear scientist Bruce Banner, whose gamma-ray experiments accidentally unlock the rage-driven monster within...
...means that there will be good leadership and good continuity,” Gray said...
...basic goods and services is slowly being choked off as the area comes under frequent mortar attack. With this ancient Sunni community slowly being strangled to death, its residents were unlikely to rejoice at the prospect of being surrounded, "for their protection," by a 15-foot-high barrier of gray concrete slabs...