Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baked, books to be read, a crackling blaze in the fireplace to be contemplated. A dream of the counterculture seems about to come true, until cabin fever strikes. Suddenly, plates full of moose meat are being hurled about, hair is being pulled; Bob punches Elizabeth in the stomach. She writes: "I was free to hate him now, no doubts and no regrets. We could hate each other for having at last released the things we hated most in ourselves." The domestic turmoil subsides into a wary truce, but both parties know that they will never again winter there...
Capote has a stomach for blood. One whiff of murderous intrigue and he heads for the scene of the crime. He meets up with a state investigator named Jake Pepper in town somewhere in "a small, western state" where the murderer has already claimed seven victims...
ANDREI BELGRADER'S As You Like It takes the aggressively self-confident stance that no one--not Shakespeare, not his audiences, certainly not today's audiences--could or can stomach pastoral. This production gleefully aims groin-kicks at each of the text's literary conventions, until their prone bodies threaten to outnumber the actors on stage. Whether Belgrader remains faithful to some indeterminate "author's intentions" or in fact manhandles the play for his own purposes, the final product impartially communicates the matter of Shakespeare's discourse on love, while obliquely making its own points. A deft maneuver...
Caffeine is a stimulant known to penetrate the placenta and reach the fetus. A new FDA study has shown harmful effects on the offspring of 305 pregnant rats force-fed caffeine through a tube into the stomach. Those that consumed caffeine in amounts equivalent to a human drinking between twelve and 24 cups of coffee a day gave birth to offspring with missing toes. After birth, rats whose mothers had received caffeine in amounts comparable to only two cups of coffee a day in humans did not grow as fast as normal...
Though suggestive, the findings do not firmly establish a relationship between caffeine and human birth defects. After all, people are not force-fed caffeine by tube into the stomach, and they may not metabolize the chemical in the same way as rats. The FDA will attempt to resolve these issues by further studies. Meanwhile, the National Coffee Association and the soft-drink industry have announced plans to do their own surveys of pregnant women to determine patterns of caffeine consumption and birth defects...