Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kendall's preferred option will always be silence. It was Kendall who moved most forcefully in the 48 hours after the scandal broke to shut down Clinton's own plan to explain himself and go public with, as the President put it, more rather than less; sooner rather than later. Even as the White House spin operation was weighing options on how and when Clinton would tell his story--whether it was to be in an interview or a news conference, on television or in print--"the lawyers went through chapter and verse with [Clinton] and decided...
Nearly 40 years of data on 1,190 men have shown that those with depression are about twice as likely to develop heart disease, including fatal heart attacks--even when adjusting for factors like smoking and cholesterol. Researchers can't explain the connection, but advise those with depression to take other heart risks more seriously...
...green," says Dipsy, played by John Simmit, rolling his eyes. "That's all I'm allowed to say." And if the Teletubby creators had their way, we might not even know that much. Why the secrecy? "We don't want to destroy the magic," people involved with the show explain again and again, obviously infected by that numbing, Teletubby-like repetition that mesmerizes children. Or, as the show's co-creator Anne Wood says, "We want to preserve the whole reality of the Teletubbies...
...centered football field may explain many instances of dropped balls, fumbles and heartbreak throughout the football team's history...
...inhibitors may not just control pain; they may also one day prevent some types of cancer. Researchers have learned that malignant cells in the intestines manufacture COX-2 enzymes to accelerate their growth. (That may help explain why consuming fruits and vegetables, which block COX-2 enzymes naturally, seems to protect against colon cancer.) Clinical trials are under way in England to see if superaspirins can prevent colon cancer. Other scientists, meanwhile, have determined that COX-2 inhibitors could conceivably lessen some of the brain damage in Alzheimer's disease...