Word: seriousness
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Besides being emotionally stressful for some, menopause can bring physical discomfort and may lead the way to serious health risks in older women. When their reproductive years end and the production of sex hormones drops, women face not only the prospect of hot flashes and insomnia but also a greater chance of worse conditions, such as heart disease and a weakening of the bones called osteoporosis. Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have developed pills designed to replace the hormones the women have lost, and these drugs have come into wide use. Now, however, new questions are being raised about their...
...many people have to die in DC-10 crashes before the FAA wakes up? Two rear-engine explosions in less than a month indicate a fairly serious problem, and the FAA would be well-advised to ground the jet until its comes up with a solution to that problem...
Accidents are frequent on the rundown Mexican railway, but this was by far the worst this decade. A rail spokesperson, like others consulted, said it was not the worst in Mexican railroad history, but could not list a more serious...
Although the cleaning bill has slashed Exxon's second-quarter profits from $1 billion to $160 million, the world's largest oil company has so far suffered no serious financial hardship. Even so, warns Bryan Jacoboski, who follows the oil industry for PaineWebber, "I think this could be only the tip of the iceberg...
Though no deaths or serious injuries were reported, nearly 25,000 people were evacuated from their homes and crowded into schools and hotels. As scattered rain dampened some of the fires in midweek, more than 4,000 evacuees were allowed to return home. But most of the blazes were still burning, and fire fighters said it would take days of rain to extinguish them. No such downpour was forecast...