Word: thinner
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Fearing that restoration work would topple the tower, a giant belt was looped around the building and connected to large weights a block away. Thinner steel bands were wrapped around the first level for added support...
...Bagwell agrees, noting, “Aside from having a little more hair and perhaps being a bit thinner, Leo hasn’t changed a bit. He still takes off his clothes at the drop...
...popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...says, "I have a certain comfort level in making some recommendations because there are other good reasons for preventing strokes, for reading, for taking folic acid. If our findings showed something that had no other known benefit besides preventing Alzheimer's, then we would be on much thinner ice." Even so, it's not clear precisely how much folic acid to take, and Snowdon's team is divided on whether to boost the intake of vitamins C and E beyond the normal recommended doses (Markesbery says yes; Snowdon says not until we know more...
APRES ASPIRIN A blood thinner called clopidogrel can reduce the risk of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks and strokes 20% in folks with unstable angina, according to a study of 12,500 subjects worldwide. Clopidogrel is already used after angioplasty procedures--Vice President Dick Cheney took it--but this latest study may make it the most significant advance in the management of heart disease since aspirin. If only clopidogrel were as cheap: it costs about $3 a pill...