Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a great opportunity for us. I think it's a great change to be able to link together student service and student activism," he said...
Wintemute and his colleagues provided a clear statistical link between Saturday-night specials and youthful crime. Their 1996 study showed that even teenage buyers of these guns with no criminal record were more likely than purchasers of more expensive handguns to commit violent crimes with them...
Morton may well have performed an even more remarkable service to modern medicine by establishing a link between metabolic disorders like glutaric aciduria and cerebral palsy. Most practitioners have long believed that oxygen deprivation or trauma at or before birth causes cerebral palsy, a motor disorder that reflects injury to the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia. But Dr. Karin Nelson at the National Institutes of Health, as well as colleagues at other research centers, has concluded that these causes do not explain most cases of the disease. "Holmes Morton has given us fresh insight into the source of cerebral palsy...
Saturday evening's party, however, came after the pledge season's conclusion, and Krueger had already been welcomed as a member of the society. The event was designed for "big brothers [to] link up with their little brothers," Campbell said...
...another series of studies in the 1970s, scientists discovered links between serotonin and aggressive behavior. Monkeys with high levels of serotonin by-products in their blood, it turns out, tend to be feistier, and drugs that boost serotonin activity tend to calm them down. The serotonin-violence link appears to hold for humans as well. In 1979 psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin, now at George Washington University, discovered that Navy enlisted men with low levels of serotonin byproducts often had a history of aggression. Subsequent studies discovered similar evidence in Marines discharged for excessive violence, in people who became violent after drinking...