Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Batista is best known for his heart-trimming procedure, he is taking his beliefs about size to other areas as well. Eisenmenger syndrome is a disease caused by a septal defect, or hole in the heart. As the condition progresses, fresh and deoxygenated blood begin to mix, with the latter seeping through to the body, causing pressure to build in the lungs and stretching the lung tissue. In the U.S., the defect is usually closed up right away, but in the developing world children often grow up with the hole. Until now, the solution was a heart/lung transplant, which...
Bagwell hit .286 but had 127 walks for a .426 on-base percentage. Despite playing in the cavernous Astrodome, Bags was second in the league in both homers and RBIs with 43 taters and 135 of the latter. He also had the first ever 30-30 season for a true first baseman with 31 thefts...
...effect of putting its users to sleep. That is why doctors came up with fen/phen; the "phen" (phentermine) is an amphetamine-like drug that wakes the patient up again and boosts the metabolism to burn calories faster. Wurtman separated fenfluramine into its two component chemicals, levofenfluramine and dexfenfluramine. The latter has revealed itself to be a powerful weight-loss medication. He patented the drug for M.I.T., founded a company called Interneuron Pharmaceuticals to manufacture it under license to Wyeth-Ayerst and began moving the drug, dubbed Redux, through the FDA-approval process...
...enhancers, such as Prozac, have never caused heart problems. There is a crucial difference, however, between Prozac and Redux-fenfluramine. The former, like the other SSRIS, keeps serotonin in circulation longer than it would otherwise be, thus helping the brain get the most out of its normal output. The latter do the same, but they also force nerve cells to boost the levels of serotonin that go into circulation. It is this unnatural bath of excess serotonin, some scientists theorize, that causes heart-valve defects and also triggers brain damage--in monkeys, at the very least--by overdosing neurons...
...Latter-Day Students Association, the group of Mormon students on campus, meets weekly for spiritual thought and other activities in Memorial Church...