Word: corrections
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Hewlett and her allies say they are just trying to correct the record in the face of widespread false optimism. Her survey found that nearly 9 out of 10 young women were confident of their ability to get pregnant into their 40s. Last fall the A.I.A. conducted a fertility-awareness survey on the women's website iVillage.com Out of the 12,524 respondents, only one answered all 15 questions correctly. Asked when fertility begins to decline, only 13% got it right (age 27); 39% thought it began to drop at 40. Asked how long couples should try to conceive...
...able to judge the speed of oncoming cars. As physical changes such as arthritis set in, some older drivers find it more difficult to turn their head to check their blind spot. "With functional testing, we can identify where drivers are having problems and do a lot to help correct them with occupational therapy and simple adaptive equipment on the car," Rawley says...
PRINCELY DIGS I knew I was going to like the Souvannaphoum Hotel as soon as the rumpled bellboy showed me into its best suite and began pointing out its features. "There's no television," I said, as my eyes adjusted to the crepuscular gloom. "Correct, sir," he replied, beaming. Then he bid me a pleasant stay and turned on his heel, with nary a hint of the smarmy loitering or obsequious entreaties that generally accompany the importuning of tips in expensive hotels...
...events are also intended to correct the conception that Arabs are politically radical and focused on the issue of a Palestinian state and other Middle-Eastern concerns...
...parents who want to give you the whole story, from wunderkind’s birth to this very moment, because somehow they’ve decided that you care. The silent parents who let their prospective student do “all” the talking, only interrupting to correct every mistake, dot every verbal “i” and cross every “t.” And, my favorite: the parents who, because they’ve being intimidated by the myth or by their child’s inability to measure up, arrive with...