Word: keeping
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...order to keep the entire institution at least somewhat aware of what is going on in its various branches, Gibbons says, the office puts out a bi-weekly newsmagazine...
Especially hard to keep track of are patients' medications. This ignorance is dangerous because the wrong mixture of drugs can lead to violent reactions in patients...
...pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities of teenage sex and, by keeping kids in the dark about safe sex, contribute to America's relatively high incidence of teen...
Supporters of both abstinence-only education and sex education agree that schools are the main source of sex education for most students. It's the next step that divides the camps: Does safe sex education encourage students to become sexually active? Or does it keep already sexually active kids safe? No one knows for sure, but studies in Europe suggest that open discussion about sex and its attendant risks and responsibilities actually raises the age at which kids become sexually active. And, as many sex educators point out, kids know that sex is out there, and they're curious about...
...Also absent from Tudjman's funeral were the leaders of the NATO countries, which, although they'd backed him in his war against the Serbs, subsequently began to keep their distance from the authoritarian nationalist. "The West's early decisions on Croatia were made in a time of crisis management, when Tudjman's anticommunism was enough to win him support," says Anastasijevic. "Later, Tudjman's lack of enthusiasm for democracy and factors such as his denial of the Holocaust made them more uncomfortable." But while Western governments are hoping that Tudjman's passing will open...