Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Mukerji, Umaer was so excited about biology when he came to MIT that he bought the books for three semesters of his classes in advance. Krueger was a quiet guy who rowed crew, played lacrosse and wanted to be a mechanical engineer, she said...
...feet beneath the grass of Tercentenary Theater, maintenance workers check pipes and pressure gauges in perfect quiet as the voices and heat of the University rush overhead...
...pain for the first time in months. Next Alex began an intensive program of physical therapy and counseling. He learned self-hypnosis and imagery to help him cope with the pain, and Berde prescribed antidepressant medications--not because Alex was depressed but because the drugs have been found to quiet the nerve activity that causes neuropathic pain...
Most important was to get Alex moving, to reassure him that physical therapy would not harm him even though it would hurt. Not only would exercise help restore his strength, but Berde had found that it seemed also to help reprogram and quiet the misfiring nerves. Alex spent two months in the hospital. By March, six months after he first became ill, he had begun to walk with a cane. He recovered steadily, though he still needed physical therapy and took several years to regain his strength...
...quiet on Stage 25 of the Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, Calif. Backstage, the bagels and breakfast makings are laid out for the cast and crew of NBC's new sitcom Veronica's Closet. But the star is nowhere to be seen. Kirstie Alley is in her trailer, squealing with laughter and slurping away on a juice concoction of white grapes and lemons. She is on Day 3 of a 40-day juice-and-fruit fast and proselytizing the cleansing merits of her diet. "Taste it!" says Alley, popping up from the sofa to pour a portion...