Word: effects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruthlessly uplifting. The stories are gathered under recurring rubrics--"On Love," "A Matter of Attitude," "Live Your Dream," "Learning to Love Yourself"--and deal with such universal themes as a mother's love, obstacles overcome, misunderstandings resolved, the cuteness of puppies and the boundless wisdom of children. The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Imagine a bath in strawberry shortcake. Imagine a meal of chocolate eclairs. With a Napoleon for dessert. And a milk-shake chaser...
...eruptions of colorful spring wildflowers around the country this week may seem like a benign by-product of El Nino's drenching rains. But they could be a booby trap for outdoors-loving Americans. Ready to pounce out of the dense vegetation on any passing body will be another effect of the moist, warmer-than-usual weather: battalions of speck-size ticks carrying the summertime scourge called Lyme disease...
...sucking the victim's blood, launching antibodies against the bacteria even before they've left the tick's gut. Although it took three shots over 12 months to achieve it, the vaccine gave immunity to 90% of the test subjects ages 15 to 65 (it is somewhat less effective in the very old). The only side effect reported was some soreness from the shots themselves...
...simpler plan is to rebalance each quarter to keep your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash steady. That has the salutary effect of forcing you to sell the asset that has risen most and buy the bargains. Today that means swapping stocks for bonds and cash...
...case of Cubism, which, in one of art history's great collaborations, he co-invented with Georges Braque--beget. The exception, since Picasso never painted an abstract picture in his life, was abstract art; but even there his handprints lay everywhere--one obvious example being his effect on the early work of American Abstract Expressionist painters, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, among others...