Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this muddle, centuries turn inside out and the cast at Golgotha can be changed and added to; there is even room for Mary Baker Eddy and Dr. Helen Schucman. It is also possible for Jesus to command a good table at Spago. Or, given Vidal's insatiable need to shock, to find himself pinioned by user-friendly nails at the Crucifixion...
...frustration and obscurity, the world of adhesion science is beginning to fulfill its promise. Researchers who look at many diseases as a failure of stickiness are designing both antisticky drugs and Super Glue-like drugs to treat a range of disorders, including heart disease, transplant rejection, stroke, arthritis, shock and cancer. Michael Gimbrone Jr., head of vascular research at Harvard Medical School, predicts "a whole new generation of therapeutic interventions." Several drugs are now being tried on humans, and early next year the first of them -- a gel that spurs wound healing -- will enter the final U.S. government approval process...
Another antiadhesion drug is being developed for the treatment of traumatic shock. Here too the goal is to prevent the body's own healing process from going awry. Traumatic shock can occur when accident victims lose large quantities of blood, causing cells in vital organs to starve for oxygen. The starving tissues trigger a distress signal that summons leukocytes and other members of the body's damage-control team, which begin to destroy distressed cells. Alas, if the signal stays on too long, cells are killed at a phenomenal rate and major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma...
...Cadets got a shock they wouldn't soon forget. Harvard pounded and pounded, defensively on the line and offensively on the ground and in the air, pushing the Crimson to a 20-7 lead entering the fourth quarter...
...This is a big shock," said Kirsten Landers '94. "It was very surprising to everyone. He was a really good...