Word: counteraction
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Part of that problem, she said, comes from the parent-less existence television often provides. Television's influence is hard to counteract, she said. That's no surprise at any age, but looking at some of the stories the kids wrote, the power of television really struck me. One girl wrote that her mom still wasn't home last night, and so she watched television. For another girl, every story she wrote involved television in some way. And the news gets worse: the teacher said that one day, she asked a girl to bring in any book from home...
...just a symbolic act but also strong medicine for victims. "In the courtroom the tables are potentially turned," says Dr. Stuart Kleinman, medical director of the Victims' Services Agency in New York City. "You can take action that makes you the powerful one, and that tends to counteract feelings of helplessness and can be very therapeutic." Kleinman describes a 45-year-old man who recently came to him with insomnia and feelings of overwhelming rage after having been severely beaten in his office by a gun-wielding intruder. After speaking at the sentencing of his attacker, the victim reported that...
...effective, a weight-loss drug must counteract some of the body's most basic biological mechanisms. Evidence suggests that weight is controlled in much the same way that a thermostat regulates room temperature. According to this explanation, known as the set-point theory, the brain plays an importatnt role in determining a person's ideal weight, which remains more or less constant throughout adult life. Whenever a person loses weight, a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person...
...committee also discussed the use of increased publicity to counteract inflation, but decided that using the media would do little to solve the problem...
...Republican governor has said any petition to preserve rent control would counteract the will of the state's voters. Question 9 was passed by a 51 to 49 percent margin on Election...