Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what happens, the fans who make it down to Bright will be in for a treat...
Then, cutting right to the meat of the issue, the singer rasped at her male audience: "Nowadays you have to treat women nice / Or else they roam around the house with a knife / Or else you'll find you're missing something!" Again, the cheers of busty chorusters...
Prozac is the most popular of a new class of drugs that treat depression by increasing levels of the brain chemical serotonin. Doctors have known for some time that raising serotonin levels can positively affect a patient's mood, but they can't always be sure that the drug will have the desired effect...
Doctors have long known about the link between heart disease, America's No. 1 killer, and high levels of cholesterol in the blood. Yet physicians have been reluctant to treat patients with drugs that lower cholesterol. Not only are the medications expensive (as much as $1,000 a year), but they also have been dogged by an inexplicable anomaly: in studies of patients who take them, declines in fatal heart attacks have been offset by a mysterious rise in deaths from other causes. As attractive as the cholesterol-reducing pills might seem, nobody had yet proved that they actually save...
...since Trek fans are notoriously alert to any noncanonical deviations from Roddenberry's holy writ. "The laws of Star Trek are totally fictional but are held by the fans with such reverence that they have to be followed as if they were Newton's," says Berman. "You have to treat them very carefully, because there are people who for 25 years have considered them sacred." Even so, there are times he contemplates heresy: on his desk sits a bust of Roddenberry, its eyes and ears covered by a blindfold. "Things are sometimes said in this office that he probably would...