Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safest approach to biotech is via mutual funds. Vanguard Health, Fidelity Select Health and Putnam Health Sciences have the best three-year returns, according to Lipper Analytical Services. But if you're playing with the speculative part of your portfolio, which is appropriate here, individual stocks pack the big thrill. Naturally, there's no telling if biotech stocks will break out of their slump anytime soon. But if you want to be there when they do, start nibbling...
...researcher, who once demonstrated a successful experimental treatment by dropping his trousers in front of hundreds of astonished colleagues at a conference), Viagra merely paves the way for the possibility of arousal. Erections must still be achieved the old-fashioned way, whether through desire, attraction, physical stimulation, the guilty thrill of an illicit affair, page 27 of The Godfather or what have...
Some of the shows have been commemorated on CD (not good enough--they all must be preserved!), but the magic moments occur in those long weekends onstage. A few to recall with a shivery thrill: the giddy glissandi of the Sing for Your Supper trio (Luker, Gravitte and Sarah Uriarte Berry) from The Boys from Syracuse; Kuhn, an angel lost in hell, singing The Man I Love from Strike Up the Band; the male chorale Some Girl Is on His Mind from Sweet Adeline--a rendition so pure and poignant that it left the City Center crowd in silent rapture...
Unlike the genes that are responsible for physical traits, Hamer emphasizes, these genes do not cause people to become homosexuals, thrill-seeking rock climbers or anxiety-ridden worrywarts. The biology of personality is much more complicated than that. Rather, what genes appear to do, says Hamer, is subtly bias the psyche so that different individuals react to similar experiences in surprisingly different ways...
Remember the thrill of your first major league game? How huge the stadium felt? How green the grass looked? Sitting there in the stands, whether you've attended one game or a hundred, you'll find it hard not to feel a sense...