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After refining his experiments, Ziegler hit upon the first anabolic steroid, known as methandrostenolone and marketed in 1958 by Ciba Pharmaceuticals as Dianabol. But there was already a dark side. Ziegler's test subjects quickly started abusing the drugs and developed such side effects as swollen prostates or shrunken testicles - an outcome that would prompt the doctor to condemn his own creation before his death in 1983. Nonetheless, by the early 1960s pharmaceutical companies had developed nearly a dozen rival steroids, which quickly gained popularity off-label with athletes. In 1976, the International Olympic Committee became the first sports group...
Eventually, however, the critics started to gain ground. Baseball traditionalists charged that doping undercut the sport's most storied records. The medical community, meanwhile, pointed to serious side effects: male breast development, coronary heart disease, susceptibility to injury and the mood swings known as 'roid rage, among others. The rising number of teens emulating their idols by doping provided more cause for concern...
...about earthquakes," says Blanpied. "We look at faults and patterns of quakes over many years and say where on the landscape they're likeliest to occur next. This forecasting is usually in the long term." Indeed, scientists predicted as recently as 2008 that a fault zone on the south side of Haiti's island of Hispaniola posed a "major seismic hazard...
Just 36 seconds into the second frame, Malcolm gave the puck to defenseman Tom Dignard, who found Sean Backman streaking up the left side of the ice. Backman skated into the Harvard zone and put a long slapshot past junior Crimson goalie Ryan Carroll for the 1-0 lead...
Just over a minute later, the Crimson went ahead for good. Fallstrom took a pass and charged up the right side of the ice, beating Malcolm with a long shot from the faceoff circle to make the score 2-1. Grimshaw and fellow sophomore Daniel Moriarty were credited with assists...