Word: injection
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...around gas masks and protective gear, but no one complains. For the troops on the ground, the greatest fear is of chemical attack, a strike by an enemy they cannot see. "You imagine walking around, and your buddy is lying on the ground having convulsions, and you have to inject him with atropine," says Private First Class Myra Camacho, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y. That is why the troops love the chickens...
Rather than excising the organ which is playing host to the tumor--often a dangerous or impossible procedure--the Harvard researchers found that they could inject a drug to halt the growth of blood vessels near the tumor, thus starving the cancer...
...Jaber, whose view is typical, "people go for the sheepskin, not for the knowledge. With employment assured, there is no need to actually learn anything if you are not self-motivated." Performance and accountability "are only the beginning of the new discipline we are going to have to inject into our school system," says Hasan al-Ebraheem. "We have to break up the university, create elite centers of training in specific skills like banking and business, and then we have to encourage those who cannot make it in those places to accept vocational training...
...Vonnegut is also known for his wit and ability to create bizarre characters by finding the irony in everyday life. Bradley, too, has this ability, and takes advantage of it to inject his novel with a sharp wit and satire...
...development of complications. Half the 1,441 volunteers are following the standard policy of two insulin * shots a day. The rest belong to an intensive-therapy group that tries to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible. Some participants, like Ken McDonald, are using insulin pumps. Others inject themselves with insulin four times a day. The results, scheduled for release in 1993, should determine whether or not the benefits of intensive therapy outweigh the risks. Cautions Dr. Saul Genuth of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland: "Everyone's hunch is that it will be beneficial. But hunches...