Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gurian, a Spokane, Wash., therapist who has written two books on boys, notes that four adolescent males drop out of school for every one adolescent female. Among his prescriptions for helping our sons: provide them with mentors; provide twice as much emotional nurturing--spending time with them, developing family rituals, giving them new freedoms and responsibilities; restrict TV, video games and movies. Strikingly, these recommendations are precisely what our daughters need...
...late to buy bonds? Can interest rates keep sliding? We are at historic lows already, and rates are famously difficult to forecast. To make an additional 25% gain in zeros from here, the T-bond yield would have to drop to about 4%. A further tumble sounds incredible, I know. You have to recognize zeros as an aggressive bet. But it could pay. Inflation, the greatest threat to bondholders, is truly dead, and the world and U.S. economies are weakening fast--developments that argue for lower rates...
...better for strength training--free weights or machines. The point is to start building those muscles. Muscles use more calories than fat does, and although I guarantee you won't end up looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger (women don't produce enough testosterone to really bulk up), you just might drop a dress size...
...group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties. Two weeks ago, she went to a Unocal shareholders' meeting to demand that the oil company drop plans to build a $4.5 billion pipeline in Afghanistan. Not long after, Unocal temporarily ceased operations there...
...mood, but it won't help them conceive. A study of 100 women shows that even relatively modest amounts--one drink a week or less--can reduce a woman's odds of conceiving that month by 40%. Add a cup or more of coffee every day, and the chances drop even further...