Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
...reported in Science, the researchers estimate that 1 in 200 people carries the defective gene. Of the 95% of them who will eventually develop cancer, 60% will get colon cancer and the rest will develop a variety of other malignancies, including tumors of the uterus, stomach, pancreas or urinary tract...
Among Rubin's published works are numerous translations, a book about early censorship of literature in Japan and a humorous tract about the quirks of teaching Japanese grammar
...stimulates a number of chemicals, the most common of which is histamine. Histamine is responsible for a number of rather unsightly and uncomfortable responses in the body. It can act on to make breathing more difficult by stimulating the production of excess mucus in the bronchial tract, and also cause inflammation by enlarging blood vessels...
...camps, usually starts with fluids to counter dehydration. Then comes a high-calorie, high-protein mixture such as the U.S. government's Unimix, made of ground beans, ground rice or corn, sugar and vegetable oil. This is given in frequent, small meals so that the out-of- practice digestive tract can handle it. Severely malnourished children may require hourly feedings. "They are hard to rehabilitate because they are lethargic and lose their appetite. They turn their head when spoon-fed," says Dr. Graeme Clugston, chief of the World Health Organization's nutrition program...