Word: triggered
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...Monthly unemployment hits the papers in early May; if it ticks up again, that's the moment to start looking at Greenspan's trigger finger. Between now and then, look at retail sales, and consumer confidence especially...
Glaciers, including the legendary snows of Kilimanjaro, are disappearing from mountaintops around the globe. Coral reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Nino events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears, butterflies and beluga whales are being...
...book? You may be right. According to geneticists, up to 70% of the population may have a genetic abnormality that causes them to metabolize many of the drugs on the market particularly slowly--meaning that chemicals hang around in the body longer and have more time to trigger toxic effects. Doctors hope that within a few years, patients with the flaw can be identified, and their doses can be appropriately adjusted...
...Bush's serving. But Bush would still prefer this to be a bipartisan-smelling victory, and he'll need to give up more than Nelson's farm programs for that. Maybe the estate tax repeal, maybe the reduction in the top income-tax bracket, maybe the trigger...
Researchers are making enormous progress in determining what phobias are, what kinds of neurochemical storms they trigger in the brain and for what evolutionary purpose the potential for such psychic squalls was encoded into us in the first place. With this understanding has come a magic bag of treatments: exposure therapy that can stomp out a lifetime phobia in a single six-hour session; virtual-reality programs that can safely simulate the thing the phobic most fears, slowly stripping it of its power to terrorize; new medications that can snuff the brain's phobic spark before it can catch...