Word: gum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already had three drug stores within a mile or two of each other. Each was unique: Cadman's had been in business for over sixty years. Another stocked its shelves with an impressive menagerie of stuffed animals. The third had supplied me with bottle after bottle of pink, bubble gum flavored antibiotics, prescribed for my frequent childhood ear infections. Rite-Aid was a major threat to them all. The only bright point, it seemed, would be the store's beer section, which could prove invaluable for high school kids seeking some Genuine Draft on a Saturday night...
...years since the caramel theory was first advanced, the gooey glycosylation residue has been given an appropriate acronym: AGES, for advanced glycosylation end products. If residue from AGES do indeed gum up the body's works, however, there may now be a way to get things unstuck. Investigators at the Picower Institute for Medical Research in New York are working on a drug that acts as an AGES solvent. Known as pimagedine, the medication dissolves the connections between the AGES protein and the proteins that cluster around it. In one study, 18 patients taking pimagedine showed reduced blood levels...
Workers stationed at "T" stops in Harvard, Porter and Central Squares and at the Cambridge hospital handed out "survival kits" filled with chewing gum, raisins and information on how to quit permanently for smokers who wanted to quit for the day, according to Patricia M. Anderson of the Tobacco Control Program...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Over the last 10 years there has been an explosion of government interference in our lives. It is now illegal to roof a building and chew gum at the same time...
...Sounds farfetched, but advanced PERIODONTAL DISEASE may increase an expectant mother's risk of giving birth prematurely. The gum disease is an infection. In fighting it off, the body produces chemicals that may set off contractions...