Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death will have largely recovered. But children, especially those under five, can carry the scars for life. They can go blind from lack of vitamin A. They may never achieve their full height. Girls may never be able to safely bear children because of malformed pelvises. And mental function is often impaired. "Even when they are fed and back on their feet, you'll have a generation of kids with a considerable degree of retardation," says Michael D'Adamo of Catholic Relief Services...
...agree with the staff's opinion that the athletics department and admissions office wrongly function as cloak-and-dagger operations. Harvard should make the athletics department more financially accountable and should make the Admissions Office more honest in disclosing its policies...
...extremist or are lone operators. Officials admit that a ban also forces the more organized groups underground, making it tougher to track them. Nonetheless, political scientist Gerd Mielke maintains that the ban "is a blow against right-wing extremists in making their activities illegal. Much more important is its function as symbolic politics, as drawing a line for the public." Not enough of that defining, of what is acceptable and what is not, has been done thus far, he says, adding that the bans will backfire if nothing is done "to attack the social circumstances that allow the ((violence...
...have if the accident had occurred two or three years ago. Within hours of his injury, the football player received two new treatments -- one of them not yet approved in the U.S. -- that could help limit the damage. Although the drugs cannot cure paralysis, they may conserve enough nerve function to make the difference between confinement to a wheelchair and being able to walk with braces and crutches...
...Americans paralyzed by old injuries. By studying how nerve cells grow during embryonic development, scientists believe that they will one day learn to overcome the spinal cord's stubborn unwillingness to repair even a 1-cm gap in its length (a gap that is nonetheless large enough to paralyze function). Several biotechnology firms have cloned specific chemicals that regulate nerve growth, though none are ready for clinical...