Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noticed Grandma looked frail, had lost weight and was walking a bit slower. But I thought little about it. The doctors said the chemotherapy treatments she'd received five years earlier destroyed the cancer she was battling. They said, "She'll live to 100," and I believed them. But when Grandma went to have her hip examined the next day, the doctors only shook their heads. "She has a few months left," they said. "She's in tremendous pain--another tumor the size of a grapefruit. It didn't show up on the tests until...
...once we enter the "real world" the burden of social justice descends and without prior experience we are liable to either crumble under its weight or refuse it outright. Beware students: beware Icarus, the boy who thought he could soar to the high heavens on flimsy wings...
...only that tobacco is addictive but also that the company has known it all along. While RJR Nabisco and the others continue to battle in the courts--insisting that smokers are not hooked, just exercising free choice--their denials ring increasingly hollow in the face of the growing weight of evidence. Over the past year, several scientific groups have made the case that in dopamine-rich areas of the brain, nicotine behaves remarkably like cocaine. And late last week a federal judge ruled for the first time that the Food and Drug Administration has the right to regulate tobacco...
Anyone who doubts that genes influence behavior should see the mice in Marc Caron's lab. These tireless rodents race around their cages for hours on end. They lose weight because they rarely stop to eat, and then they drop from exhaustion because they are unable to sleep...
...sweet little 16 at the hop. But that was before guys who knew three guitar chords were dubbed artists and, as such, had to suffer out loud for their muse. Consumers of pop have become so used to dirges about life's rottenness, sung by grungesters crushed under the weight of money, fame, drugs and women, that any happy music seems like ad jingles. Even female singers, traditionally dainty types, got the message. Doesn't Alanis Morissette sound as if she's performing at riflepoint in a gulag...