Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House, Ms. Currie took her to the study to await the President. He came in on crutches, the result of a knee injury in Florida two weeks earlier...
About three years ago, the human experiment began in earnest. IVF recruited couples who wanted a child of a particular sex, either to bring "gender balance" to their family or to help them avoid sex-linked genetic diseases for which their offspring could be at risk. The procedure took no more than a day and cost a non-reimbursable $2,500 a try. "I actually watched the sperm enter my body on the screen of the ultrasound machine," marvels Monique Collins, 33, of Gainesville, Va., one of the program's first successes...
...multiplex near you. In McMillan's book How Stella Got Her Groove Back, now a movie, the lead character, 40, meets a 20-year-old student in Jamaica whom she eventually marries. And, why yes, Stella does have a son and two sisters. The simple (real life) nuptials took place on the beach in Maui, with the barefoot bride in spiky hair braids. Check upcoming novels for details on how the marriage works out. --Reported by David E. Thigpen...
...could hardly pick up a newspaper or a magazine (including this one) without catching the buzz about a pill called Redux that was going to revolutionize the way Americans lose weight. Then last summer doctors noticed an alarming number of heart-valve problems in their patients who took Redux or its chemical cousin fenfluramine, prompting the recall of both drugs. Now comes word, from three studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that the heart problems may not be as serious as was first feared--at least for patients who took the pills for less than...
Under the best circumstances--in which patients took Redux at the recommended dose for the shortest period of time, 11 weeks--changes in heart valves appeared to be not too serious. The longer that patients took the diet pills or the higher the dose, however, the greater the problems. (In the case of Redux, that meant taking more than 30 mg a day; for fenfluramine, more than 60 mg a day.) One study found that the risk of developing a heart-valve problem jumped 10- to 20-fold...