Word: muscularity
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...Parkinson's is caused by a breakdown of the brain's production of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which relays the electrical impulses involved in muscular movement. The last great breakthrough in treatment was in the late 1960s, when the "miracle" drug levadopa, or L-dopa-the chemical precursor of dopamine-was discovered to "unfreeze" patients who for decades had been practically rigid, unable even to produce facial expressions. Though it remains the standard treatment for Parkinson's, there is a serious downside to L-dopa. After a couple of years, during which patients seem to be cured, they start developing...
...many as 200 more members of KMM terrorist cells. That number could be low if you believe Abdul Rahman, a former KMM foot soldier, who quit the organization two years ago after disagreeing with its plans to wage a violent campaign to install an Islamic government in Malaysia. Short, muscular and terrified of arrest, Abdul Rahman smokes constantly as he describes how he was recruited through a martial arts group and later sent for six months' paramilitary training in Thailand. "There were 45 in my group alone, and there were many, many groups sent for training," he relates...
...with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours. On Friday we saw how muscular reasoning can cut through the noise...
...summer Kevin Sibley, a mentor at a local YMCA, picked Wayne to join Sports Scholars, a physically demanding daily program for young boys. In a journal that Sibley required, Wayne drew an early picture of himself: sweaty, rotund, sad. At summer's end, a new doodle showed a beaming, muscular boy in a superhero's cape. By his November visit to OWL, Wayne had shed the dark skin on his neck--and lost...
...those of you who haven't raised an eight-year-old boy lately, has evolved from a normally proportioned grunt into a buff, ripped, mega muscular warrior who, if he were a real man, would have 27-inch biceps and other proportions achievable only through years of bench presses, protein diets and the liberal use of steroids...