Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With a sport like fencing, which doesn't have a very broad base of support, it was very attractive that he had been at Brown for six years, and we've heard nothing but great things about him there," McNeeley said...
...With a sport like fencing, which doesn't have a very broad base of support, it was very attractive that he had been at Brown for six years, and we've heard nothing but great things about him there," McNeeley said...
Health experts are not ready to list the foods that will keep cancer at bay, but some broad outlines of an anticancer diet are taking shape. Beta carotene might not be the key, but fruits and vegetables, which contain it, seem to help. Lycopene might not be the answer, but it too is found in fruits and vegetables. Fiber works--and again, fruits and vegetables (especially beans), as well as whole grains, are an ideal source. So along with giving up tobacco (mouth, throat and lung cancer) and limiting alcohol consumption (too much booze leads to cirrhosis, which leads...
...scorching. In another preview of election 2000 ? the other main issues are gun control, tax cuts and campaign-finance reform ? the Senate is engaging this week in amendment-by-amendment combat over a patients' bill of rights for HMOs. Democrats, including a vociferous President Clinton, are pressing for a broad set of provisions that would expand access to emergency-room care and specialists, and enlarge the right to sue recalcitrant HMOs for denial of treatment. Republicans, while pressing for some of the same reforms, are seeking a more limited bill covering fewer people and with no broad new rights...
...findings show how important it is for researchers to look at the whole population and not just patients in university hospitals, where the worst cases are usually referred. By examining a broad cross section of adults in the long-running Framingham Heart Study, Dr. Lisa Freed and her colleagues found only 2.4% of subjects had mitral-valve prolapse and that half those cases consisted of less harmful variations on normal cardiac design. They also found the condition to be equally uncommon among women...