Word: glean
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Federal rules require that research pose only a minimal potential risk to youngsters and glean important information about a medical condition. The study doesn't qualify, the groups charge. They claim that HGH therapy may increase the chance of developing cancer. Moreover, shortness is not a medical condition but a social problem. "There's no physical risk to being short," declares Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee. Adds the foundation's Jeremy Rifkin: "NIH can't experiment on healthy kids if there's no medical problem...
...Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable walk-on, defining the people around him: "The Irish. From so little they glean so much: squeeze the last ounce of joy from a flower with no petals . . . The Irish? You step off a cliff . . . and fall...
McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
Such morality tales are part of the daily rounds in cbs's new medical series The Human Factor, which debuts this week. The show's guiding thesis is that doctors don't pay enough attention to the emotional side of treating patients. Viewers, however, may well glean another message: ban all senior medical experts from your hospital-room door, and put yourself in the hands of the first caring youngster you see roaming the halls. Oh, well, who said TV medical shows had to make sense...
Today, those students wishing to start up or revitalize clubs have little in the way of resources which allow them to easily glean insight from the experience of the leaders of older, larger extracurriculars. A student center would provide a central meeting place and a tangible symbol of the continuity of student activities...