Word: stomachable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ulcers, there was encouraging news last week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...
Still, while it remains the champion of analgesics, aspirin has lately become a subject of considerable controversy. Doctors and health officials are becoming increasingly worried that many people may be overdoing a good thing. Taken in excess, aspirin can cause ringing in the ears, dizziness, mental confusion, stomach bleeding and, as an anticoagulant, special problems for those with blood-clotting difficulties. Not the least of its hazards is its interaction with other drugs. As the Food and Drug Administration's Dr. William Gilbertson puts it: "Aspirin is safe, effective, but must be respected...
...medical profession's concern about the use of analgesics has been heightened by the aggressive introduction of aspirin substitutes such as Tylenol and Datril, which contain the drug acetaminophen. Though this drug has the advantage of not causing the stomach irritation associated with aspirin and though it can be taken by the few people sensitive to aspirin, it also has drawbacks: in large doses it can cause liver damage. In addition, since it is not an anti-inflammatory agent, it does not work against the swollen joints characteristic of arthritis...
...return to the loading ramp. Traveling backward is foreign to people in a straightforward world, and there is considerable disorientation in whipping through a loop at high speed in reverse. The most hardened roller-coaster freak can climb out of a giant loop with wobbly knees and churning stomach...
Which rides are better? As in all things, it is a matter of taste. Loops and corkscrews probably offer the rawest thrills-unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your...