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Hwang said she also hopes to dispel what shecalls a myth that Harvard undergraduates are notgood-looking...
...expose you, the "ballet-illiterate," to the realm of the performing art of ballet and to dispel common myths that might prevent you from watching...
...recent breakthroughs in genetics. Because no cure for Huntington's exists, a positive test result is like a death sentence. Though it cannot foretell when the first symptoms will appear or how long the victim will suffer, the outcome is certain. On the other hand, a negative result can dispel the cloud of anxiety that hangs over every member of a Huntington's family. Before advising people to take the test, Wexler carefully probes each person's attitude and outlook. "Some people can cope very well with a positive result," she says. "Others almost certainly...
...staunch backer of the Palestine Liberation Organization, China finally succumbed to Jerusalem's courtship out of a desire to re-enter the world stage. Beijing wants to dispel the smoke of ostracism that still hangs over it from the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and fill the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union's breakup...
...this activity did nothing to dispel the impression that the President, relatively surefooted in foreign affairs, has no clear ideas for solving homegrown problems. Sununu did not help matters by his autocratic, high- profile style, and in recent weeks he found himself embroiled in several public spats that did not inspire confidence in his leadership. At one point Sununu seemed to criticize the President for a remark about high interest rates on credit cards; at another point he accosted a Washington Post reporter at a bill-signing ceremony, shouting, "You're a liar! Everything you write is lies!" Skinner...