Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly, our resident Mac-Daddy pulls my chestnuts from the fire, and a picture of Eion Hu appears on the screen...
Unfortunately, style is unteachable. I was recently at the Science Center writing an e-mail of my own when I happened to glance at the screen of an acquaintance beside me and was not suprised to see that he had spent the last 15 minutes constructing a happy face out of lower case i's. The banner message, addressed to his girlfriend, Julie, read "'Tis the east, and Julie is the sun." Shakespeare no doubt turned in his grave as my counterpart sent the epistle and then glanced at me doubtfully to ask if I thought the note...
Many psychoactive drugs--including opiates, the Valium-type compounds and angel dust--mimic the action of neurotransmitters by binding to particular receptors and influencing the neuron's firing. Pharmacologists have acquired the tools to screen new drugs quickly, testing their affinity for particular receptors by cloning, or duplicating, the receptors and then designing molecules that bind to them. So refined are the new techniques that scientists now know of 14 different receptors for serotonin, the ubiquitous chemical messenger that plays a critical role in sleep, mood, depression and anxiety. They have also discerned five different receptor subtypes for dopamine...
Hernia surgery is synonymous with painful and slow recovery, which is one reason that only 700,000 out of nearly 5 million U.S. sufferers seek treatment. In repairing a serious groin hernia, surgeons generally stitch in a synthetic screen to cover a tear in the abdominal wall from which a portion of the intestine may protrude. Now, however, they can simply plug the opening with a cone-shaped mesh device. Plugging rather than patching the hole causes less strain on the surrounding tissue and reduces the extent of both surgery and recovery time...
...like to hear stories about physicians who have devoted a third of their lives to education and training being forced to get permission to do a necessary operation from an insurance clerk staring at a computer screen at the other end of an 800 number...