Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drugs work pretty much the way the old ones do. Aspirin and other NSAIDs block production of substances called prostaglandins, which are among the most versatile molecules in the body. Among other things, prostaglandins trigger uterine contractions during birth; generate a layer of mucus that protects the stomach from its acids; and cause blood particles called platelets to form clots--a mixed blessing, since the clots that help a wound heal can also lead to a heart attack...
...allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out. Some biologists--Harvard's E.O. Wilson has pioneered this thinking--believe there is a genetic component to these traits, that kids like Luke and Kip simply lack the DNA that keeps their fingers off the trigger. In the end, Satan is certainly the easier explanation, if less intellectually satisfying. As Kurt Cobain once sang, "Now the people cry and the people moan/ ... And try to find some place to rest their bones/ While the angels and the devils/ Fight to claim them for their...
...body's insulin levels. But in the past two decades, they have learned that certain complex carbohydrates--starchy roots like potatoes and carrots and highly refined foods like white bread, white rice and white pasta--are broken down into simple sugars so rapidly by the body that they can trigger a strong insulin response. Nutritionists refer to such foods as having a high glycemic index...
...sang and played guitar, when they rode all day and came home clean, soiled by neither dust nor sweat. When, rather than reveling in bloodshed, Clint-like, they simply shot the gun out of the villain's hand. By the time Roy Rogers -- husband to Dale Evans, rider of Trigger and friend to Gabby Hayes -- died Monday of heart failure at the age of 86, a lot had changed in Hollywood's Old West...
...Children and adults alike bought Roy Rogers -- born Leonard Slye, of American Indian extraction, ironically -- as a Hollywood cowboy for two decades, and as a traveling icon of museums and rodeos for years after that. They came to see that palomino Trigger, famously stuffed after the horse's death in 1965 because Rogers "just didn't have the heart to put him in the ground." (Bullet received no such honor.) And to this day they eat at the restaurant chain that bears his name. Why did Roy Rogers endure? Probably because he always stayed clean. He married frequent costar Dale...