Word: organ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitments and eventual massive infusions of government funding. It was this alliance of government, university laboratories and the private sector that became the driving force of the wave of invention and refinement that has ranged from the submicroscopic, molecular level of genetic engineering to the spectacular arena of major-organ replacements...
...supporting limited research into the risks and benefits of boosting the levels of three hormones that decrease as people age: melatonin, which affects sleep cycles; dehydroepiandrosterone, a product of the adrenal glands that converts to estrogen and testosterone; and human-growth hormone, which affects bone and organ development, as well as metabolic rate. Limited lab tests on animals suggest to some investigators that melatonin may serve as an antioxidant, wiping out the free radicals that can harm the body's cells. But scientists are cautious because results have not been repeated in additional animal studies--and the different metabolism...
...Harvard professor is suing two Harvard teaching hospitals, charging them with age and disability discrimination after they released him from his administrative responsibilities as chief of organ transplant programs last April...
...though not as massive as St. Peter's, this church seats a huge congregation, boasts a thunderous organ and requires an elevator to reach it's chapel...
...predictions of impending devastation in the PC industry, Grove thinks it's unlikely. His basis for that judgment? The same organ that digests his special cereal. "When I first came to this country in the 1950s from Hungary, people were mesmerized by cars. That's the kind of conversation you hear today about computers," he says. "Demand will stay strong." MMX, due this fall, may help...