Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the 120-year-old toxic waste contamination, East Woburn citizens--who are particularly concerned about several children who have developed acute leukemia, liver cancers and other diseases-established an action organization "For a Cleaner Environmental" (FACE...
Perelman died two years ago, so until some biographer turns him into academic chopped liver, it is going to be hard to tell how much of the Perelman persona was Perelman himself. Until then, the only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman...
...Washington Irving High School, luck got her a bit part in a Broadway play and talent soon made her a star, first in the theater, then in films. She married and divorced an actor, then in 1935 married a Los Angeles surgeon, Joel Pressman. His death, of liver cancer in 1968, left her devastated. "He was my best friend," she says. "I had been hemmed in all my life, thinking that if I wanted to go somewhere, I couldn't. All of a sudden I was completely alone-my mother and my brother died not long after...
Anabolic steroids are synthetic male hormones that can give athletes an extra boost during training and competition. Though side effects are often severe-damage to liver, kidneys and reproductive organs-the drugs allow athletes to train harder and become stronger...
Heedless of Zeus, Prometheus gave the secret of fire to mortals, and was punished by being bound to a cliff in the wastes of Scythia. There an eagle fed on his liver, which, once consumed, grew back, only to be devoured again. A harsh response, considering that Prometheus only sought to give man a little mastery over nature. But Zeus was notorious for overreacting. Who knows what punishment he would have devised for the modern enlightened nations that, in the interest of mastery over nature, have handed out nuclear power with such deliberate generosity these past few years...