Word: developing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleeping" is seen as a way to develop better parent-child bonding and as a way to make breast-feeding easier and more comfortable. James McKenna, a Notre Dame professor familiar with baby-parent sleeping patterns, hints that babies who sleep with their parents may be at a lower risk for SIDS. McKenna told the Associated Press that even in the deepest stages of sleep, mothers respond within seconds to their baby?s slightest noises. In his studies, he says, the only time parents have been unresponsive is when they are desensitized by drugs, alcohol or some other means...
...best solutions have already begun to be implemented and need only to be improved and expanded upon. For example, the U.N. should be more proactive with its birth control information and distribution programs in areas that need it most. And industrialized nations need to continue to research and develop alternate energy sources, more efficient pollution controls, and better waste disposal methods...
Since then his lab has been investigating how dystrophin functions in both normal and diseased muscle cells. The research has helped scientists develop strategies to replace diseased cells with healthy ones...
...Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon," writes Robert Fulghum in my favorite of his musings. "And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air--explode softly--and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air," depositing boxes of crayons "with the sharpener built right in.... And people would smile and get a funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination...
Alumni clubs around the country--ranging from those who hold a few backyard barbecues a year to the New York club, which has its own building complete with squash courts--encourage their members to develop contacts within the network...