Word: pick-me-up
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Harvard's 7-2 win yesterday was the perfect pick-me-up after the weariness of finals: an avatar of textbook baseball in which the pitching and the offense combined to throttle the fourth ranked team in the country...
...PROZAC pick-me-up. Early reports indicate that taking estrogen seems to enhance the ability of Prozac to alleviate depression in older women...
...that I can get too wet-eyed about a creature that sees me essentially as a high-protein pick-me-up. If there's any reason to keep bears around, it's because they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could...
...Talk about a pick-me-up. Data on 87,000 female nurses ages 34 to 60 show that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are two-thirds less likely to commit suicide than those who abstain. The finding comes as a surprise: coffee lovers tend to drink alcohol, smoke and have lots of what they perceive to be stress--all factors thought to be associated with a high suicide risk...
...rooting about in the basement of Widener the other day, newly disappointed by a malfunction in the motorized shelves of Pusey, when I came upon these magazines for the first time. The find was just the pick-me-up I needed. Bounding up the stairs to the circulation desk. I began to wonder who actually subscribed to these magazines--fairly well-designed, professional looking publications, not the sort of thing one imagines lying around on the floor of the neighbors' backyard septic tank turned nuclear shelter...