Word: mcgwire
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What does it take to be a major league baseball player? Great hand-eye coordination, lots of power and a bottle of androstenedione or creatine. At least that's what the manufacturers of these dietary supplements would like you to believe. Just look at Mark McGwire, who took both substances last year and cranked out a record 70 home runs. And Sammy Sosa, who took creatine and came in second in the great slugfest of 1998. They must know something the rest...
...blood and decreased levels of HDL, or "good" cholesterol, by 12%. Moreover, andro did not help test subjects build muscle mass at all. Scientists want to do more research to be sure, but right now it looks as though all that androstenedione consumed by would-be sluggers after McGwire broke the home-run record may have been taken in vain...
...popular male action figures like G.I. Joe have been popping the plastic steroids a little too zealously. The G.I. Joe of the 1960s had biceps equivalent to those of an average man, about 12 in. But the 1997 iteration, G.I. Joe Extreme, had biceps measuring 26 in. Poor Mark McGwire. His are a piddling...
Answers: Bob Hope: Men and women of Desert Storm; Philip Johnson: Frank Gehry; Edward Teller: The fall of communism in the U.S.S.R.; Hallie Eisenberg: Beanie Babies; Jonathan Lipnicki: Mark McGwire; Madylin Sweeten: Rosie O'Donnell
Maybe the greed for Mark McGwire's homerun balls had filtered its way down to Mickey...