Word: vital
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...located above the kidneys, is implanted into the brain. Doctors have known for years that the symptoms of parkinsonism result primarily from the death of cells in a darkly pigmented part of the brain known as the substantia nigra. This region serves as a production center for dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter that helps govern such voluntary actions as walking and speaking. As it happens, there is another site in the body, outside the brain, that produces substantial amounts of dopamine: the inner core of the adrenal glands. By transferring dopamine-producing adrenal cells into the brain, Dr. Ignacio Madrazo...
...cafeteria downstairs. He sat on a windowsill in the rear, morosely munching a sandwich. The others stood for an hour and a half rather than miss the President's emergence. Doubtless, many considered sneaking out for a cup of coffee, then thought of trying to justify missing a vital quote to their senior editors...
From death rate statistics which are gatheredin Vital Statistics of the United States, anannual compilation of demographic data,researchers calculated how a change in risk levelwould improve life expectancy...
...exemplary one. The professor emeritus now regards political activism as a diversion from his primary interest in pedagogy. But the conclusion of his 20th book belies that claim: those who are indifferent to vital issues "owe the intellectual and cultural freedoms in which they luxuriate to the commitment and sacrifices of others." Even his extensive list of opponents would have to concede that the spirit of those "others" is crystallized in Sidney Hook's long, retributive and triumphantly out-of-step career...
...warehouse. Now, after five years of archaeology, Historian Robert Kimball has prepared a 178-page inventory of some of the contents for the first volume of the Catalog of the American Musical, to be published in September by the National Institute for Music Theater (NIMT). "We have reclaimed a vital part of our musical heritage," Kimball boasts. "These works will now be heard in their original form...