Word: thinner
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...painkiller, a blood thinner and a heart saver as well. But taking aspirin in combination with ibuprofen (in the form of Advil or Motrin) can render the multi-purpose pill powerless. Ibuprofen, it turns out, blocks aspirin's blood-thinning ability 98%; more studies are needed to determine whether people who take both drugs need to worry about a higher heart-attack risk. In the meantime, doctors note that aspirin does not cancel the effects of other major painkillers, including rofecoxib and acetominophen...
...guys and rob them. Kayoko, a thin 17-year-old with long, permed hair, is sitting with two girlfriends on a wooden bench when she hatches the plan. This grassy park adjacent to their former junior high is where they kill their afternoons, smoking joints or Marlboros, sniffing thinner, whatever it takes to escape their boring homes and their dull parents and a tedious night of pretending to do homework and then sneaking out to work at the cabaret...
...field, the Crimson is thinner than it has been in the past. With the graduation of Arthur Fergusson ’01 and an ankle injury last spring to sophomore Tekky Andrew-Jaja, the team has no experienced, healthy triple jump competitors...
...clots on long air flights (the so-called coach-class syndrome). For patients who are already at high risk of clots--because they've had them before or have other circulatory problems like large varicose veins--something completely different seemed to do the trick: a shot of the blood thinner heparin one or two hours before flying cut the risk of clotting to nearly zero...
...I.R.A. might be involved in terrorism in America?s backyard. Weak denials from republicans were not accepted, and a few weeks later, as a Dublin official put it, "the world turned. Sept. 11 changed the game." After the Twin Towers fell, international distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters became thinner. Sinn Fein?s U.S. fund raising, worth millions of dollars, came under threat from both individual donors and the U.S. government. The party?s friends on Capitol Hill got cold feet, and it closed its Washington office...