Word: secondhands
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LOOK, MA, CAVITIES! Thought you had heard every reason to quit smoking? Here's a new one: to protect your kids' teeth. It turns out that secondhand smoke can nearly double the risk that kids ages 4 through 11 will develop cavities. What's the connection? A by-product of nicotine called cotinine, once thought to kill off the bacteria linked to cavities, actually does the opposite, encouraging tooth-destroying bugs to grow and multiply...
...said she receives phone calls from her professors to give her reading assignments and even had a secondhand sourcebook for one of her classes passed through the window...
...Liverpool had somebody in the family who went to sea. You looked at other people, and they seemed like little gray people who worked in offices and taught in schools. We had these drunken seaman uncles who were larger than life, who would come back in bright, gaudy, secondhand suits they bought in Palm Beach. They had money, you know, and they'd throw it 'round when everyone else was careful...
...more than enough to seize the brain's attention and serve as a repository for incipient fears. "Temperament also seems to be critical," says Craske. "Two people can go through the exact same traumatic event, but the high-strung, emotionally sensitive person is more vulnerable to the fear." Even secondhand fears--watching Mom or Dad react with exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were...
...This week, the Appeals Court judges took a different view, arguing that there is no direct causal link between the site's plea for "evidence" and the deaths of several doctors and clinic workers listed on the site, and cited the distinction between a direct threat and secondhand encouragement. If the site "merely encouraged unrelated terrorists," Judge Alex Kozinski wrote, "then their words are protected by the First Amendment...