Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landscape is emptier, the housing costs lower, the culture more gentle--places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create the gilded topiaries they've dreamed about for years. In Wilmington, the emigres include a Boston doctor, a California silicon-chip engineer, a pharmaceutical-research scientist, a cop, a prosecutor, an artist looking for solitude and a carpet installer from suburban Dayton who chucked his job for one selling fertilizer in town...
Raloxifene is one of a group of compounds whose formal name (which only a scientist could love) is selective estrogen response modulators, or SERMs. They are designed to mimic the hormone's good qualities while avoiding its bad ones--or at least that's the theory. Although SERMs have been widely publicized and are likely to find a big market, some doctors and women's health groups are sounding a note of caution. To get the best protection against osteoporosis, they note, women might have to take raloxifene for decades. And because the drug has been studied in humans...
...Gerber was an internationally recognized teacher and scientist, respected by former students and colleagues worldwide. The Tulane University Medical Center is a financially vigilant and prudent institution whose faculty provides--for no fee--excellent care of indigent patients at New Orleans public hospitals. In your ill-conceived article, you have smeared the reputation of an outstanding physician, traumatized his grieving family and insulted a major academic center. In short, your article was dead wrong. JOHN C. LAROSA, M.D., Chancellor Tulane University Medical Center New Orleans...
Wesley Snipes stars as a commercial director who begins to reevaluate his life after a visit with his AIDS-infected best friend (Robert Downey Jr.) and a one night stand with a beautiful rocket scientist (Nastassja Kinski). Though it shows some intelligence in dealing with issues of loss and adultery, Mike Figgis' latest effort lacks the complexity and emotional heft of Leaving Las Vegas. What redeems the sketchy script just enough to make the film bearable is Figgis' jazzy direction and a nuanced performance by Snipes...
Mathews-Ross is a research scientist who studies Erythropoietic Protoporphyia, a disease involving hemoglobin formation in the blood...