Word: gum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smokers may have an easier time quitting if Dr. C. Everett Koop can convince a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel to make Nicorette gum available without a prescription. The former Surgeon General told the committee today that nicotine gum has proven its effectiveness in helping smokers quit. "If anyone can convince the FDA to do this, it's probably Koop, who is still seen as America's doctor," notes health care writer Janice Castro. "Until now, nicotine gum has been controlled for fear that users would reinforce their addiction to nicotine." At today's meeting, several medical experts said...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls. Besides, you can rent original pictures from the Fogg collection cheap-the only fee is to cover the cost of insurance...
...strangest form of procrastination he's ever undertaken: Poster-gum penis sculpture...
...began sculpting poster-gum phalluses: A friend has a cartoon he scribbles everywhere, sort of a graffiti tag; it's a penis with an arm saluting. He calls it Corporal Penis. One day we were on the T, and I had some poster gum. I made a little statue of Corporal Penis and struck it on the T, and it was pretty amusing. So, I had some [poster gum] at home, and I started making penises to decorate all of my posters...
...none of them had finals or mid-terms. (FM: We should have talked to this guy during shopping period--he's a natural!) I thought it would be awesome; I'd have four-day weekends to do whatever I like. But I usually just mad penises out of poster gum. Monday I'd have to do all of my reading for all of my classes, and it sucked...