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Dates: during 2000-2009
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START SLOW Warming up before exercise not only averts muscle injury but may also help prevent migraines. After 30 sec. of sudden, intense exercise, nitric oxide production--at high levels believed to trigger the crushing headaches--increased significantly in women prone to migraines, and more than half of them went on to develop one. Experts say warm-ups could help sufferers get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jul. 9, 2001 | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...getting Skynyrd to play a ballad b) playing with the dimmer switch on their tiny little butts c) releasing nitric oxide d) clapping with their tiny little wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 9, 2001 | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Here I am...brain the size of a planet, and what does he have me doing?...answering the phone." It was a playful reference to the sci-fi cult classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In his home, police found fuses, blasting caps and three gallons of nitric acid in a cardboard box labeled DANGEROUS: DO NOT MOVE. McDermott had a firearms-identification card for rifles and shotguns that expired in 1999. Neighbors remember him as an unsmiling presence, but by Christmas he seemed to be in good spirits. "I've never seen him cheery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Killer | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...mixture of nitric acid and alcohol was spilled in a sink at a Harvard Medical School building, causing a cloud to form in the room. The building was evacuated and an outside contractor was called in to clean the spill...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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