Word: steroidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Professor Kala Krishna proved that capitalists subsidize athletes just as much as steroid wielding communists do by destroying the schedules of 160 students to accommodate the dedication of 40 sports enthusiasts. Originally scheduled from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Ec 1011a, a required honors course, now meets at 8:30 a.m. to avoid conflict with the athletes' practice time. A 20 percent minority was given preference over the 80 percent of the class that lacks athletic stature...
Although cholesterol is popularly regarded as an enemy, the body needs it to manufacture new cell membranes, steroid hormones and bile acids. Made primarily in the liver and also obtained through food, cholesterol travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...
There's not the same compelling reason to see James Dean's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Orson Welles), except to toss the title around. Here we have desperation at its most stylish and vacuous, the new boy in town who has to pose tougher than a steroid-fed General Patton. But it's not just a cause that The Rebel needs, it's a family, friends. Where Natalie Wood's acting slips up a little, the skillful filming covers up, setting Dean in a fraction of a frame filled with lonely cliffs and ravines...
...Anabolic steroids are essentially the male hormone testosterone and its syn thetic derivatives. They were developed to alleviate strictly medical problems: correcting delayed puberty and preventing the withering of muscle tissue in people undergoing prolonged recovery from surgery, starvation or other traumas. Curiously, U.S. athletes were indirectly introduced to the drugs by Soviet athletes. In 1956 the late Dr. John Ziegler attended a world weight-lifting championship in Vienna and was told that the drugs were greatly improving the performance of the lifters from the Soviet Union. Ziegler, believing that U.S. athletes could also helped by the drugs, worked with...
When the hypothalamus finds the testosterone levels too high, as it does in the case of steroid abusers, it signals the pituitary to stop production. Problems can also arise in some cases after athletes stop taking the drugs and the hypothalamus fails to get the system started again...