Word: detectible
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...edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When she says, "It takes a village," they hear an implicit threat to have government impinge on their prerogatives as parents...
...absurd” and “ridiculous.” “When they have to check my musical instrument for books, it gets annoying,” said Natalie D. Bau ’09. “They already have an electronic sensor to detect books that weren’t checked out. If I were going to take the trouble to demagnetize my book, I’d also take the trouble to stick it in my coat.” The security measures, including the guard desks, have been in place for over...
...bomb attacks in Portland, Phoenix and Guam. More than 15,000 people will participate, from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to local mayors, police officers and nurses. Professional make-up artists will create oozing "wounds" for volunteer victims, and equipment will be flown in from across the country to detect and contain the "contamination...
...truly vital that we share what we know about how to detect and treat the disease, especially in the Third World, where resources may be woefully lacking. There are 3.5 million women in the Indian city of Pune, and there is one comprehensive breast-care facility there. In South Africa only 5% of breast cancers are caught in their earliest stage. In the U.S. it's 50%. In Kenya, a woman with the disease may have no hope at all unless she can travel elsewhere for treatment. "You just sit and wait for your death," Mary Onyango, a Kenyan breast...
...vaccine, only 38 percent of females had talked with a female physician about it. 37 percent of women surveyed had never had a pap test. In fact, 26 percent of these women did not know where to go if they wanted to get one at Harvard. Pap tests help detect abnormalities early when they’re the most treatable and when they’re the least lethal. Combine the high rate of HPV among women our age with Harvard’s low pap test rate, and there is clearly a problem...