Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children already dead, and those living in fear or isolation around the country a concerted effort to make schools safe again...
...result of a lack of heart. The team gave more than a 100-percent effort. It just couldn't get any breaks...
...result of a lack of heart. The team gave more than a 100-percent effort. But it just couldn't get any breaks...
Battling cancer with immune-system transplants is a straightforward--if searing--procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that...
Also arriving in time for Earth Day in schools across America is a special issue of TIME FOR KIDS, TIME's classroom magazine. The issue is the culmination of an effort begun in the fall, when TFK issued a challenge to its readers in Grades 4 through 6. This challenge was not for the homework faint-of-heart: students were asked to conceive, plan and execute a project that would improve some aspect of the environment in their community. TFK promised to publish a report on standout projects in the last of its three-part series of environment-themed special...