Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...window was a notable amenity. Finished in 1209, Old London Bridge boasted not only houses but shops, inns, mills and the decapitated heads of traitors until the 1750s, when the homes were removed because city planners decided that dropping waste into the river wasn't such a swell idea after...
...sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin, the 'Long Kiss Goodnight' is a sweet mix of cunning and convention. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave star Geena Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side and uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie...
Harvard Crimson, Technology Columnist; Harvard Cooperative Society, Director; Harard Business School, Online Services Consultant; WHRB 95.3 FM Radio, Administrative Staff; All-Around Swell...
...weeks at least. The effect is similar to one caused by the recreational drug Ecstasy, a distant chemical cousin of the fenfluramine family, and the cause is evidently the same: neurotoxicity, or more plainly, the killing of brain cells. An overdose of Redux makes the neurons that produce serotonin swell, then wither, then die, according to Johns Hopkins neurologist Dr. Mark Molliver. Eventually some of the cells regenerate, but they are often malformed. Moreover, the overdose doesn't have to be huge. All Molliver had to do was double the dosage required for weight loss. In humans, such an overdose...
That is only part of the story. The 3.8 million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before...