Word: arduously
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...deal with uncertainty. Doctors are often only as good as their diagnostic tests, and those tests aren't perfect. Too often we are forced to say, "You might have cancer"--which leads to lots of fear, anxiety and lost sleep. It is also often the beginning of an arduous process of more tests and in some cases surgical procedures. The only way to be absolutely sure about cancer is to examine some of the suspicious cells under a microscope. That means a biopsy. And in the U.S. we perform more than a million breast biopsies a year. The results come...
Holidays can be exhausting, often requiring long travel times and arduous hours in the kitchen. But today is one holiday when all you have to do is say ‘hello...
...days after I returned from winter break my freshman year, my mom gave birth to my twin siblings, Adam and Mariam. I was on speaker phone for the hours it took to choose their names. It’s an arduous process in a Lebanese family. Do you name after the grandfather? Which side? Have you slighted any uncles? Luckily, enough people have had children in my family that just about everyone over the age of 20 has a namesake or two (even...
...ceremony.Sure, he didn’t get into Harvard, but he was at the pinnacle of his career and, briefly, at the center of American sports attention as well.But Cheek’s greatest moments were yet to come.His actions in Turin were the beginning of a sincere and arduous advocacy, as Cheek has become a vocal spokesperson against the genocide in Darfur. Since returning from Italy, Cheek has been traveling around the country and across the globe, trying to use what fame he has achieved as a means of spreading awareness about the atrocious policies of the Khartoum government...
...stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs that were not College-affiliated. Current law forbids student travel to Cuba unless the student is from a university that has applied for and received an academic exchange license from the U.S. Treasury Department. The arduous process of obtaining this license took 18 months, and permission lasts for only one year, according to Harvard’s vice provost for international affairs, Jorge I. Dominguez. The Cuban-born Dominguez wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson, “We will apply again...