Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman's immune system displays an exquisite amount of control that a man's cannot replicate. It's still not clear why, but the female body's defenses tend to mount more aggressive responses to invading marauders; then, during pregnancy, this response is dampened considerably to accommodate the fetus. Perhaps owing to this on-off intensity, women are more prone to developing lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, all conditions in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue. Researchers are just beginning to study why estrogen might cause the defense system to rev into overdrive in these cases...
...They appear to be more susceptible than men to damaging the ligaments that hold the knee together. Many women basketball players have suffered painful and potentially debilitating tears to the anterior cruciate ligament, which can take months to heal. Doctors think it may have something to do with a woman's wider hips, which place a greater strain on the ligaments joining the thigh to the knee. These ligaments are weaker in women to start with...
...PRETTY RICH WOMAN...
...Lauryn Hill wins five Grammys, record for a woman artist; Shania Twain wears skimpy outfit, Madonna kimono...
...both hackwork and the vehicle of some of his highest instincts as an artist. It drove him crazy: "I don't know how to draw anymore," this greatest of 19th century draftsmen moaned to a friend. "I don't know anything anymore. A portrait of a woman! Nothing in the world is more difficult; it's not doable. I'm starting it over. It's enough to make a man cry." And he undoubtedly meant...