Word: decays
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...cost of the dental care plan premium as an essential component of students’ financial aid package. Harvard University graduate students should enter the job market with a set of brilliant, healthy pearly whites to match the brilliance of their research, rather than with dental debt or decay...
...city of bulldozers. That's what could do the most damage to the things that gave the city its character--the center-hall cottages with their columned porches, the rows of single-file shotgun houses with their carved brackets supporting deep overhangs. Many of those dwellings were in serious decay even before the storm hit, but as long as they stood, there was the chance to preserve and restore them, as has been happening in the city's transitional neighborhoods like Bywater. Once they are gone, will flavorless 21st century tract houses replace them...
...Marriage, to which the new work is not so much a sequel as a descendant. There are also echoes of a dozen or more of Bergman's despairing, exhilarating films. The old themes nudge you: death, and those who aspire to it; love, and how it sours; the inexorable decay of the body and the spirit; the need to reach out for others, and the fear that in doing so we will claw them, or be devoured...
...blood, these towns hope to avoid the fate of hundreds of hamlets across the Plains that have passed the point of no return--even if they don't know it. Kansas State's Darling says that once a town is down to its post office and silos, the decay is fatal. He estimates that 20% of Kansas' 627 incorporated communities are on the slippery slope to extinction...
...drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid's Prado, and now in Vienna: Lusthaus, a fragment ed evocation of a city in moral decay and concealed emotional turmoil during the years leading up to World...