Word: commited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good thesis requires an extraordinary amount of blood, sweat and tears. But it is not the only path to distinction. Before steeling yourself to its chains, make sure your enthusiasm reflects a will to commit to weeks where you will focus on nothing but esoteric puzzles that will surely bore your roommates. And if you truly are mad north be northwest, submit to an experience whose rewards go far beyond the honors degree...
When you hit as many balls out of the infield for base hits as you commit errors, common sense dictates that you'll lose. Well, score one for common sense...
...Talk about a pick-me-up. Data on 87,000 female nurses ages 34 to 60 show that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are two-thirds less likely to commit suicide than those who abstain. The finding comes as a surprise: coffee lovers tend to drink alcohol, smoke and have lots of what they perceive to be stress--all factors thought to be associated with a high suicide risk...
Teenagers know that the court system is a joke and unless they commit a very serious crime, nothing will happen to them except being moved from foster home to foster home. No disciplinary action is taken, and they go on committing crimes and showing total lack of respect to their parents, school teachers and other authority figures. Many times, children grow up and become dysfunctional adults and not respectable citizens...
...study by a group of Harvard professors, published this week in the American Medical Association's Archives of Internal Medicine, says that women between the ages of 34 and 59 who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to commit suicide than those...