Word: serum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many men, and even many women, believe that abused wives have a masochistic streak that keeps them in the home long after the beatings have begun. But Michigan Psychologist Camella Serum dismisses such assumptions as folklore. "Masochism has no relevance in this situation. It is just another way to blame the victim. The reason she stays has nothing to do with loving the pain or seeking the violence...
Such displays of tenderness are not unusual. "He may send her roses if she has left," says Michigan Psychologist Serum, "but it's not out of love. It's out of a desire to regain control." Indeed, batterers can be very calculating, both in how they deal with their wives and with the authorities once they are caught. They are frequently charming to a fault. Says Therapist Jeffrey Perez, who runs a program for batterers in New Orleans: "These guys are real slick and real glib. They can play therapy off against the court system and not have...
...daily calories of fat. Subjects were unable to detect any difference in the taste of the food, and did not attempt to compensate for lost calories by snacking more. They lost an average of 8 Ibs. during their time on the SPE diet, and, as a bonus, their serum cholesterol levels dropped 10%. How soon will SPE be on your grocer's shelf? Not for a long time, if ever. Though no serious side effects were reported, SPE is "potent stuff," says Dr. Charles Glueck, who headed the study. The compound has been classified...
Members of Congress serving on committees that keep an eye on the CIA have long faced a tricky challenge. Short of employing truth serum or lie detectors, how can they know when officials of an agency trained in the art of deception are dissembling? One such CIA watcher on the House Intelligence Committee swears he discovered an infallible method...
...motives. A man was kidnaped one night by los muchachos (the boys), as the guerrillas are known, and ordered to drive them five miles in his truck. When he returned to Osicala at dawn, he told his neighbors that the rebels had given him a shot of a mysterious serum so that he would not remember anything. During a guerrilla attack in January, two guerrillas were killed outside a house in the village. Because of the intense fighting, says one resident, they were buried in the garden rather than the village cemetery. The truth? A sign of fear? A sign...