Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rachel S. Barber '99 added that every day, "people ambush you outside and ask you to sponsor them for lunch...
...Ask any woman if she has encountered similar situations. She will give you an emphatic "yes." Whether she is blond or brunette, tall or short, thin or heavy, daringly dressed or wearing baggy sweatpants and an extra large T-shirt--whether she is what society's conventions consider attractive or not--men will comment, stare and flirt with a persistence that makes traveling salespeople look inattentive by comparison...
...first thing I am asked to do when I log on to America's Doctor Online is wait. "There are 32 people ahead of you," the screen says. Pretty realistic, I think. Next time I'll bring a magazine. Ten minutes later, I'm in a one-on-one chat with Amdoc4. I ask him one of my standard test questions: "Why don't my HDL and LDL numbers add up to my total cholesterol number?" And he answers, correctly, that there are other factors like VLDL...
...When I ask whether it's important to know my VLDL count, he says no. In fact, that's open to interpretation, since one of VLDL's jobs is to carry fatty substances, called triglycerides, in the blood, and some researchers think triglyceride levels may help determine heart-disease risk. Amdoc4 nails the next question about HER-2/neu, the defective gene that's been linked to aggressive forms of breast cancer...
...best site I visited, by far, was one available only to 15,000 members of the Kaiser Permanente HMO (I had a guest pass). When you ask nurses there a question, they can access your medical record to help inform their reply. Kaiser plans to offer the ultrasecure, password-protected website to all its 9 million members next year. What will they think of next...