Word: block
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Life was not always so tranquil at the University's most recently completed construction project, located in the Harvard-owned Botanic Gardens apartment complex one block beyond the Quad...
...latest twist in one of the most enduring controversies in college sports, the NCAA today will seek to block the ruling while it prepares an appeal, Elsa Cole, NCAA general counsel, said yesterday. She expects a response on a request for a stay of the order "within...
Spending an early Saturday morning in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic is a profound way to see how abortion rights in this country have deteriorated since the passage of Roe v. Wade. On the day Planned Parenthood performs abortions, crews of anti-abortion protesters threaten, abuse and physically block those trying to enter the clinic. This is the situation that awaits women lucky enough to be in a state with abortion providers...
...impulse, like that of the bonobo, is not as tightly coupled to reproduction as certain pro-family moralists like to think. Even in so-called primitive hunter-gatherer societies, such as that of the Australian Aborigines, women have always managed to invent forms of contraception--herbal drinks, pessaries to block the cervix, oils to bog down the sperm. Then there is homosexuality, a reproductively senseless but nevertheless deeply compelling sexual strategy for millions of both sexes. Not to mention masturbation, celebrated by rapper Foxy Brown's chart-topping song Ill Na Na, in which she promises to "hold...
Researchers aren't sure why chemotherapy boosts the effectiveness of radiation, though they have an idea. Radiation damages the DNA found in cancer cells. But all cells, including cancer cells, contain enzymes that repair broken DNA. Perhaps the drugs used in chemotherapy block the cellular repairmen from doing their job. The damaged DNA never gets fixed, and the cancer cells...