Word: canale
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Eskew has also worked to protect Gore from another formidable adversary: himself. When the Vice President seemed to be overstating his role in uncovering Love Canal, Eskew within hours produced elaborate documentation of Gore's hearings on the issue and his crusade to clean up a similar toxic site in Tennessee. He made sure reporters had an accurate version of Gore comments that had been slightly misquoted in early reports, and then drafted what is euphemistically known in politics as a "clarification." Says a top strategist for the Vice President: "We stopped that story from ever getting legs...
...internal mechanisms (the otoacoustic emissions test) or the electrical activity of the auditory portion of the brain (the auditory brain-stem response test). Just because a baby fails either test, however, does not mean there is a hearing problem. A temporary buildup of fluid in the ear canal or excessive noise in the nursery can skew the results. For this reason, says Sharon Fujikawa, director of audiology at the University of California at Irvine, hospitals should repeat the screening tests for any baby who doesn't pass the first time before telling the parents to consult an audiologist for more...