Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convulsions, according to Tsien. That's critical. The NMDA receptor shows up throughout the brain, and though calcium is crucial to learning and memory, too much of it can lead to cell death. That's what happens during a stroke: when brain cells are deprived of oxygen, they release huge amounts of glutamate, which overstimulates nearby NMDA receptors and kills their host cells. Nature may have designed NR2B-based receptors to taper off in adult brains for a reason. Some scientists fear that the altered mice may be prone to strokes. "You might worry about what happens when these animals...
...parents like to tell ourselves that children "roll with the punches," but we usually say that so we'll feel better--just before we punch them with a huge life change. Kids aren't any more flexible than we are (why should they be?) and lack the perspective to understand the shifting commitments of grownups. Last year more than 10 million school-age children moved to a new house, a number that is rising with the growing mobility of baby boomers...
...TURNER Atlantans protest CNN (and TIME) honcho's huge billboard plan. W&L sez: Make it bigger...
...between themselves and their strategic partners. Each member of the online biz-to-biz (B2B) brigade is hoping to use the Net's instantaneous global reach to build digital marketplaces where buyers and sellers who may never have met in the off-line world can gather daily to move huge and growing amounts of the nation's basic goods...
...struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They threw money at it, and the company ran up huge losses. Finally, they said, 'Enough is enough...