Word: stomachable
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...reluctance to take up the divestment issue again is understandable. Bok last "opened" the issue for discussion a few years ago, culminating in the reaffirmation of "selective" divestment last fall. He surely has no stomach for rehashing a debate that has continued for the last 20 years...
...autopsy on a passenger from Venezuela who died en route to Kennedy Airport in 1970 revealed 120 packets of cocaine in his intestines. He apparently made the mistake of using a permeable natural-skin condom, rather than a latex one, to hold the drug, which seeped into his stomach. Since the intestines are 27 ft. long, they can contain large quantities of contraband...
...Offering Breath Mints. Be subtle about it. Say, "Wow these mints are good. Wow." Or "Bet you don't have room for one of these tiny breath mints in your stomach, especially after eating all those onions...
...researchers made another startling discovery: men who are alcoholics have about half as much alcohol dehydrogenase as their healthy counterparts, but alcoholic women show almost no enzyme activity at all. The falloff may result from alcohol's injuring the stomach wall, where the enzyme is manufactured. Whatever the cause, "alcoholic women appear to lose all gastric protection," says Dr. Charles Lieber of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who collaborated on the study with Dr. Mario Frezza of the University School of Medicine in Trieste, Italy. "For them to drink alcohol is the same as shooting...
...study supports the common notion that it is better to drink on a full stomach than on an empty one. Booze takes longer to pass through a well-fed stomach, allowing more time for the enzyme to digest the alcohol. Fasting does the opposite: it speeds the stomach's emptying. Taking the popular ulcer medication cimetidine (Tagamet) also appears to interfere with alcohol metabolism by suppressing enzyme activity...