An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TIGHTROPE
tightrope
(noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tightrope (plural tightropes)
A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
(figuratively) a difficult or desperate situation.
Hyponyms
• high wire / highwire
• low-wire / low wire
Coordinate terms
• slackline
Source: Wiktionary
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PERESTROIKA
(noun) an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
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