Word: septum
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...also found activity in other regions of the reward system, including areas of the septum and a brain region that becomes active when people eat chocolate. Chocolate can be addictive. I maintain that romantic love is addictive...
...what are the facts? There is no doubt that PG&E irresponsibly dumped chromium-6, and that the substance is a carcinogen. When inhaled regularly over long periods of time, it can cause cancer of the lung and the septum. But current studies show that, ingested in the trace amount found in Hinkley's water, or in food, it's harmless. According to a 1998 Environmental Protection Agency report on chromium-6, "No data were located in the available literature that suggested that it is carcinogenic by the oral route of exposure...
...palm. I sent home a Wall Street guy who kept offering to "take care of me" and making me look at his date. And I couldn't say yes to the guy with a bandage on his nose who wanted a sympathy ticket for his "deviated septum" surgery. I turned down people who came from Rome, Paris, Greece, Miami and "all the way from the Upper West Side." I was on so much of a power trip I sent away Puff Daddy's bodyguards. That may have been a bad call...