Word: affective
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Many oncologists agree that older men - especially those over age 70 - are prime candidates for a watchful-waiting approach to treatment because prostate cancer is often a slow-growing disease that produces few or no symptoms and does not affect a man's quality of life after diagnosis. It is often referred to as a disease patients die with, rather than of. In Lu-Yao's study, men diagnosed with prostate cancer were up to five times more likely to die within 10 years from a non-prostate-related cause...
...forcibly tattooed on Brown's massive sex organ. Worse, Brown's scholarship reads like the work of a man who believes what he reads in Wikipedia. In particular, the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space of half a page) the "link between modern science and ancient mysticism." (Unlike symbology, noetic science is, amazingly, a real thing...
...when they are down in order to accomplish your own goals. You might even say, as the world’s best and brightest, you are like a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming your blood funnel into anything that smells like it might affect your...
Such messages are admissible in most U.S. states as long as they are authentic. In France, proof of infidelity won't affect child custody or asset division, but it can reduce the separation period (two years in contested cases) required before obtaining a divorce. The ruling prompted French telecoms to warn that it's possible to recover deleted texts within 10 days of sending them...
...crisis and it's a difficult one. I see a huge number of people trying to figure out the solution to the problem. I don't despair for the human race. I'm an optimist - I believe that people are good. I don't despair of our ability to affect change when we need change. But what is required is that we actually engage that ability. I believe we can solve the problem. We have to yet to find out, however, whether we have the collective will...