Word: stomachic
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...fashionable blue bags line the corridors between the library buildings. At four-feet by four-feet, you can sit up cross-legged to type, curl in a ball to read, stick out your legs to stretch, or give up and take a nap spread-eagle on your stomach. There is a steady supply of natural sunlight for my pasty vitamin D-deficient skin, the occasional passersby, and a head-on view of a church steeple with a bird that I thought was fake for three days, until it flew away on Monday...
Nevertheless, Hall, who had been slowed by the stomach flu since Wednesday, did not have the energy to continue her comeback and stumbled in the fourth game, losing...
Kamm will also reinforce the Department of Philosophy—which lost three professors last year, including Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick, who died of stomach cancer...
...pounds. The weight-loss market grew to about $40 billion last year, from $33 billion in 1999, according to Marketdata Enterprises of Tampa, Fla. Even drastic measures are catching on. Last year 63,100 obese patients--including celebrities like Today show weatherman Al Roker--underwent surgery to have their stomach capacity reduced, an increase from 23,000 such operations...
...idea that treating depression might lessen the severity of other diseases, though, makes basic biochemical sense. Everyday experience makes it clear that brain chemistry governs more than just the emotions. When your mind feels terror, the resulting surge of adrenaline makes your stomach churn. When your mind is sexually aroused, the body responds in unmistakable fashion. The effect is even more direct with the 60 or so chemicals known as neurotransmitters, which signal one cell that its neighbor has just sparked and that it should pass along the message. Brain chemicals such as serotonin circulate everywhere, not only...