Word: functions
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When F. Scott Fitzgerald pronounced his famous definition of a first-rate intelligence -- the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and still function -- he offered an example the Clinton Administration seems to have taken to heart. "One should be able to see that things are hopeless," Fitzgerald wrote, "and yet be determined to make them otherwise." That could be a job qualification for White House aides. In a summer when health-care reform has run into one deadly obstacle after another, the Administration never abandoned its line that all things were still possible...
...Treatment with two drugs that stimulate nerve growth has been shown to stop the loss of motor function in mice suffering from a degenerative illness that closely resembles Lou Gehrig's disease. Doctors now think the drugs are worth studying in humans...
...Americans. In a perfunctory attempt to separate themselves from other televisual entertainment, the TV news media has pounced on these grave issues with a cynical ferocity that could be well described as vulturine, if such a characterization did not insult a species which actually performs an ultimately useful function in nature...
However creative they may be, people with ADHD don't function particularly well in standard schools and typical office jobs. Increasingly, parents and lobby groups are demanding that accommodations be made. About half the kids diagnosed with ADHD receive help from special-education teachers in their schools, in some cases because they also have other learning disabilities. Where schools have failed to provide services, parents have sometimes sued. In one notable case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court last year, parents argued -- successfully -- that since the public school denied their child special education, the district must...
...means, explained Vice President Gore, they must not extract plutonium from the 8,000 fuel rods they have just removed from their 5-MW reactor at Yongbyon; they must not put new fuel rods into the reactor; they must keep the IAEA inspectors on duty "and allow them to function...