Word: pathways
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Opioid painkillers, which include morphine and heroin as well as prescription products like Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin, are so dangerous because they are so seductive. They work by throwing up roadblocks all along the pain pathway from the nerve endings in the skin to the spinal cord to the brain. In the brain these drugs open the floodgates for the chemical dopamine, which triggers sensations of well-being. Dopamine rewires the brain to become accustomed to those benign feelings. When an addicted person stops taking the drug, the body craves the dopamine again...
...even more remote and challenging adventure, try the Chilai Ridge trail, a rugged pathway along the mountainous spine of Taiwan. The walk begins at Ho Huan Shan hostel, on the northern cross-island highway (#14) about 60 km from Puli. From the hostel hikers need four hours and a lot of stamina to reach the 3,200-m summit of Chilai Ridge. The ridge trail, which then proceeds due south over a succession of rocky outcrops, is regarded as the most dangerous trek in Taiwan, but is unrivaled in beauty. In some places the ridge is sharp as a knife...
...caller reported that while walking along the Leverett Towers pathway a person struck him and attempted to steal his cell phone. HUPD officers sent to the area were unable to find the subject...
...phone fell out of the student's hand and the suspects subsequently fled down the pathway to Grant Street. No words were exchanged and no one reported injuries...
...virtual sex, which can get fairly graphic. The reader wanders too, because most of Grammatron's 1,000-plus text screens contain several passages in hypertext. To reach the next screen, just double-click. But each of those hypertexts is a trapdoor that can plunge you down a different pathway of the story. Choose one and you drop into a corporate-strategy memo. Choose another and there's a XXX-rated sexual rant. The story you read is in some sense the story you make...