Word: developable
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...Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to the region, is working on a media plan for Pakistan. It aims to develop the government's ability to disseminate information via new technologies such as cell phones. The idea is not to promote propaganda but to facilitate public-service messages, like emergency information or registration for refugees. The plan also allows for training government officials to become more open press officers, and to fund independent radio stations to counter those run by extremists. All this is good, but it's not enough. Pakistan's press needs to take a hard look at itself...
...With his freshman season under his belt, Cohen is determined avoid a sophomore slump next year as Harvard’s rising lacrosse program continues to develop...
...geometry teacher,' but that makes it harder for boys to vocalize their victimization." Indeed, studies by psychologists like Julie Hislop, author of the 2001 book Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know, note that boys who are sexually abused by women often develop alcoholism, depression and their own sexual dysfunctions, including rape...
...patients were given three options for the type of care they would prefer if they were to develop advanced dementia - a progressive, fatal, neurological condition that often follows years of Alzheimer's disease or a series of strokes, and kills patients three to six years on average after the onset of symptoms. Typical options for end-of-life care include prolonging life at all cost, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and mechanical ventilation; limited care, including admission into the hospital and the use of antibiotics, but not resuscitation; and comfort care, including treatment only to relieve symptoms, but not prolong life...
Projections indicate that more than 13 million patients in the U.S. will develop dementia by 2050. Elizabeth Gould, director of quality care programs at the Alzheimer's Association said that early detection of mental decline and advance planning for end-of-life care is crucial for dementia patients because of the disease's degenerative nature. The organization, which provided funding for the new study, "finds the results of the study interesting and hopes to learn more about the role multimedia can play through future studies," she said...