Word: staved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian Goodman, 20, is obsessed with the idea that disaster and death are about to strike his family. The only way to stave off catastrophe, his mind tells him, is to follow self-imposed rituals to the absolute letter: making coffee in a way that never varies, driving around Los Angeles along the same route every day. A classic victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Goodman has been in treatment since he was seven, without much change. Now he is on Zoloft. "Before the medicine," he says, "it was like living in hell...
...BONE UP For the first time, a study shows that older men, like women, can stave off bone loss--and even increase bone mass--with calcium and vitamin D supplements. Just 500 mg of calcium and 700 IUs of vitamin D a day seem to do the trick...
STEVE JOBS Mercurial founder is last hope to reboot Apple and stave off Microsoft's 1,000-year reign...
Yale officials won a symbolic victory on Monday in their six-year battle to stave off a graduate student union, the Graduate Employees and Student Organization (GESO), at the university...
...study shows post-menopausal women who take estrogen can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's by 54 percent. The 16-year study, conducted by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the National Institute of Aging, found that estrogen, natural levels of which drop sharply after menopause, may stave off Alzheimer's by stimulating the growth of nerve cells and inhibiting the production of apolipoprotein E, a fatty acid linked to the brain disorder. Scientists also think the hormone helps increase levels of acetylcholine, a crucial transmitter of nerve messages in the brain. The finding helps to support previous indications that...