Word: vein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60% of the women got pregnant...
Turner and his co-partner, Mark Cerami, have discovered that if you're willing to ignore the heat, controversy translates into cash. Billboard has crowned Priority the industry's "hottest independent label." Priority's dozen rap artists have mined a rich vein of sales, including 13 gold records, 12 platinum and two double-platinum albums. Ice Cube's latest hit, The Predator, entered Billboard's pop and R.-and-B. charts in the No. 1 slots, the first time a rap album debuted at the top of both charts. From a bare-bones crew of three operating...
...tolerant of my stylistic idiosyncrasies," he says. "I had assumed I would be brutalized, but I wasn't." While calling himself "a fairly hard-core scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think there is more to this universe than meets the eye." In somewhat the same vein, one admiring critic has described him as "a science writer fighting off a nasty case of existential dread...
...technique, called balloon mitral valvuloplasty, is performed by introducing a deflated balloon into the heart. The balloon is attached to the end of a catheter inserted into a leg vein. Once guided into a place by X-rays, the balloon is inflated, expanding the valve and clearing the blockage...
...such an enlightened vein, my English accomplice (an expert in matters thespian) and I trekked through the wilds of Brattle Street to see some play called Medea. By a Greek apparently, and a rather old one--or so I was led to believe...