Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think of a packet as the digital equivalent of a letter. You don't drop a letter into a mailbox like itself; you stick it into an envelope first. The packet is the packaging for your data, no matter what form...
That strategy may work fine with kids, but maturity is not kind to milk. Among teenage girls, typically concerned about calories, a drop-off in consumption usually occurs between the ages of 11 and 13; boys stop around age 18. More than half of adults over 35 have also dumped milk from their diet...
...first time since 1900, the overall cancer death rates in the U.S. are coming down. According to a report published last week in the journal Cancer, the number of cancer deaths fell from a peak of 135 per 100,000 in 1990 to 130 last year--a 3.1% drop. Even more encouraging, that trend seems to be accelerating. Experts predict that within 20 years, deaths from cancer could easily be cut an additional 25%, and with luck they could be cut in half. As Health Secretary Donna Shalala proudly declared last week, "We are starting...
...single most important factor in the new cancer statistics--both good and bad--was smoking. Cigarette consumption has dropped sharply in the past 30 years--from 4,194 per capita annually in 1964 to 2,515 today--and the effects of that drop are finally starting to show up. Lung cancers still account for 30% of all cancer deaths, but in those demographic groups that cut back sharply--male Caucasians, for example--lung-cancer death rates have dropped impressively (6.7%). Conversely, a lot of women took up smoking over the same period, which may account for the rise in lung...
...expend our resources trying to squeeze every last drop of privilege out of Harvard, we lose a chance to effect real change of a much more important sort. Like it or not, as Harvard students we have a certain amount of power. People listen when Harvard speaks, even if it doesn't have much to say. If we squander our energy working for ourselves, we lose this voice, a voice with the potential to help people in genuinely grave situations. The underprivileged of the Boston area, human rights abuses worldwide, the environment--these are all worthy pursuits for students seeking...