Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saddam could be self-defeating: if he refuses to budge, the Arab world could rise up against the spectacle of sustained bombing. "Surgical air strikes will not eliminate [U.S.] suspicions," says Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergei Lavrov, "and they will raise hell in the region. Blanket bombing will turn everyone in the Arab world against...
Iraqis could watch such gruesome scenes on television last week. "My family finds the animal rituals revolting," said a businessman. "We turn away. But the outside world should know that we're on our knees because of economic sanctions. Desperate people do desperate things." The people were more practical than panicky. "We expect missiles and bombs anytime," said a motorist. So like tens of thousands of others in Baghdad, he waited in line for hours to fill his gas tank. "We're not scared, but we have to take precautions. The smell of danger is very strong...
...morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said it had acted in retaliation for Kasi's conviction. In Fairfax, jurors in the case asked the judge if they were in danger, and he responded by sequestering them and ordering their...
...good cholesterol" you hope will turn up in your blood test has that name for a reason. More properly known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL), it can prevent the damage done by its evil twin, low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The latter clogs blood vessels by combining with oxygen to form a substance that sets off alarms in the immune system. White blood cells rush to attack it, and the whole mess forms into sticky globs called plaques that cling to vessel walls like mineral deposits in a water pipe. When these deposits break off and blood clots around them...
...insight into what makes good turn bad might help doctors make good cholesterol even better. It may also point the way to better drugs and explain why aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. Besides its well-known action of thinning the blood and making clotting less likely, aspirin may also tone down the inflammation that leads to plaque formation...