Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body also relies on angiogenesis to make new blood vessels during wound healing. That's a particular concern of people with diabetes, whose cuts and abrasions--particularly in their feet--often take a long time to close, leaving them vulnerable to infection. Fortunately they can use a new prescription cream, the first angiogenesis product to win FDA approval, that stimulates the body's repair processes and helps those tiny capillaries in their toes and feet to grow...
...rock 'n' roll in the only place he could find privacy: sticking his head in the family oven. Later an American serviceman arranged for a sex-change operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that's left for Hedwig is to tell her life story...
...bill. Perversely, the fact that the bill is so small exacerbates the insult. With parents working to pay for an already exorbitant tuition, having a charge of $6.50 tacked on their child's term bill with the terse explanation "damage done to common area" rubs salt in a raw wound...
...sister magazines have never been big moneymakers, and Court TV has struggled to get into the black. Early last year Brill was stymied when he tried to gain full control of his media ventures from partners, including Time Warner (parent company of TIME's publisher), and he wound up selling out to the company instead, a deal that netted him more than $20 million. He'll spend much of that on Content, which he projects will cost $27 million before breaking even. (One of the three other investors is media mogul Barry Diller...
...friend tells me of a foreign language section in which students can barely bring themselves to do more than mumble. Another person I know recently showed up for an evening math section and wound up with a private tutorial; the original eight students had, throughout the semester, finally dwindled...