Word: liverance
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...Drinking and Drinking & Driving, as if there were no other way. Every young fighter jock knew the feeling of getting two or three hours' sleep and then waking up at 5:30 a.m. and having a few cups of coffee, a few cigarettes, and then carting his poor quivering liver out to the field for another day of flying. There were those who arrived not merely hungover but still drunk, slapping oxygen tank cones over their faces and trying to burn the alcohol out of their systems, and then going up, remarking later: `I don't advise it, you understand...
...make an endorsement. "It's like going to a dance and waiting for that look across the room that says, 'This is it.' " Apparently, the feeling is mutual. "I met Gary Hart many times, and he never made a pass at me. I feel like chopped liver...
...probably the most dreaded of all debilities, yet only about 15% of those over 65 suffer serious mental impairment. Alzheimer's disease, now considered the scourge of old age, accounts for more than half that total. For much of the remainder, mental impairment from conditions such as heart disease, liver or thyroid trouble and dietary deficiency is either reversible or preventable...
...each decade thereafter, the number of calories required to maintain one's weight drops by at least 2%. Muscle mass gradually shrinks. As a result, people tend to get fatter. Kidneys may lose up to 50% of their efficiency between ages 30 and 80. Some of the liver's functions may decline. Thus alcohol remains in the body longer. So do drugs, a fact doctors are beginning to consider in deciding on dosages for older patients...
...Persons who ate in the Currier House Grill Thursday, January 7, 1988 and only on that single date, are at potential risk of exposure to infectious hepatitis (Hepatis A). The latter is a virus-induced inflammation of the liver which can be prevented or modified by the administration of immune globulin. Individuals who partook of Currier Grill food on January 7 are urged to come into the immunization on the fourth floor of Holyoke Center between the hours...