Word: absorbingly
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Orphans have traditionally been cared for the African way: relatives absorb the children of the dead into their extended families. Some still try, but communities like Tsepho's are becoming saturated with orphans, and families can't afford to take on another kid, leaving thousands alone...
Prozac is another drug that targets a particular neurotransmitter, plugging up brain chemicals that absorb the mood elevator called serotonin. Competing ssris (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), as they're called, include Lilly's duloxetine and Solvay Pharmaceuticals' fluvoxamine. Both drugs affect the same biochemical pathways, only with greater precision and fewer side effects. But better ssris aren't the only new approach. Sanofi-Synthelabo is looking into the potential of a so-called mao (monoamine oxidase) inhibitor called befloxatone. Monoamine oxidase is another serotonin-disrupting enzyme, so anything that inhibits it should make more of the mood-elevating chemical available...
...Internet is open 24 hours a day. It doesn't "close" on weekends or holidays. This allows students to watch lectures at their leisure. Students will choose to watch lectures when they are best able to absorb the material, rather than during the limited hours that the libraries and viewing rooms are open. This convenience holds special importance when test time rolls around, and students may want to watch the welfare economics lecture at 3:30 a.m. Constant availability of the lecture material contributes to an ease of learning for the student...
...rest of the world had reached a consensus on its causes and consequences, but now the Europeans accused America of "voodoo" science, as Steve Curwood put it on National Public Radio's Living on Earth. A significant number of studies cast doubt onto the effectiveness of forests in absorbing carbon, and Jeffrey Jenkins, a highly respected researcher sponsored by the British Government, even proposed a theory showing the opposite effect: planting trees in northern latitudes on previously bare land will darken the Earth's surface. Darker areas absorb more sunlight which will increase the Earth's temperatures. This might completely...
...sticker, but once inside, the dome opens, the tall creaking ladder slides loudly around in the dark, and the heavy telescope swings slowly on its ropes towards the tiny points of light. Best visited on a clear night when the moon is not too full, as its brightness will absorb everything else...