Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maggie's efforts to reunite Fiona with her son Jesse, a member of a local roadhouse rock band, are futile. The young adults still seem to be attracted to each other, but they are too touchy and impatient. Maggie finds symptoms of the age by comparing today's music with the songs of her generation: "It used to be 'Love Me Forever' and now it's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night...
...been prescribing it for their hair-impaired patients. Rogaine does not work equally for everyone, however. Best candidates: men under 40 who have been balding on the crown for ten years or less and who have a moderate amount of hair left. For some reason, the drug does not seem to work on receding hairlines. Says Dr. Robert Stern of Harvard Medical School, who chaired the FDA panel: "The most important thing is to have fuzzy hair left -- fine, light hairs...
...what about those poor bald souls for whom Rogaine is not recommended? Ovid's fellow Roman, the epigrammatist Martial, may have had the best advice: "Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair...
...cancer drug and attached to antibodies that have the ability to distinguish cancer cells from healthy cells. Injected, the package ignores normal cells and attaches to diseased ones. But getting the liposomes to stay in the blood long enough to do their job has been difficult until now. Researchers seem to have solved the problem by changing the surface chemistry of liposomes so that they can circulate for longer periods. Says UCSF Pharmacologist Demetrios Papahadjopoulos: "It's an entirely new beast. We beat the system...
...civil rights. There is no doubt that the Republicans missed the boat somewhat on trying to advance civil rights. The problem we have is: Where are you going to use the Federal Government? Conservatives are very reluctant to use Government regulations, which makes them seem anti-civil rights. Yet they would use the Government to outlaw abortion. There are stark inconsistencies...