Word: affective
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that plot is very important to you; you have literary concerns but you also want to keep people turning the pages. And that happens in American Wife. But in this case, unlike your earlier novels, many of the elements of the plot came to you ready-made. Did that affect the way you worked...
...technique could be applicable, for example, to other disorders that affect the cardiovascular or nervous system such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), as scientists could potentially grow heart or nerve cells...
...watching this marriage," says Sachs, who with Judah wrote for Freaks and Geeks and What About Brian. "When you make this move from Kansas to Beverly Hills, how does it affect your relationship, your careers?" 90210, Sachs says, will mirror a culture in which many parents consider themselves friends with their teens. "A lot of parents now want to be the cool parents, as opposed to just the disciplinarian," he says. "And sometimes that backfires. In some ways we're giant teenagers ourselves." Estes' character is also the school principal, and there's a crushworthy teacher at West Bev, played...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, for good measure, an economics Nobel laureate, the Harvard-based Amartya Sen. The team of commissioners combed through health data from around the world, and based on that evidence, drew up recommendations to narrow the inequalities of circumstance and opportunity that affect health. The suggestions are broad, only semi-concrete policies that are general enough to be applied to almost every country in the world: increase prenatal care, increase early education and provide free elementary and secondary school for all children. The report suggests cleaning up slums, supplying clean water for everyone...
...class, for one day or longer, could ultimately do more harm than good. Since school funding is in part tied to student attendance rates, Chicago Public Schools estimates it will lose $110 a day for each student who doesn't attend class. And the protest could also affect next year's funding, which Illinois pegs to the number of children in school during the three months with the highest attendance rates, with September usually being the highest...