Word: latent
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...schoolwork. Inmates speak of fellow prisoners who originally came for the "good time" but grew interested in algebra. After a while, some prisoners are more eager to do school work than their tutors. "I feel like I've brought out in some guys an interest that was latent," Freed says...
Conventional treatments cannot rid the body of HPV, which can remain latent for decades. Thus the warts often recur. Worst of all, some types of HPV have been linked to cervical and other cancers; carriers of the virus who do not have warts are often unaware of the risk to themselves or their sexual partners...
...incidence of cervical cancer has not matched the rise in HPV cases. But that is little comfort: there may be a latent period of five to 40 years before virus-associated cancers appear. Clinics are already seeing an increase of young women with Pap tests that show HPV-linked cervical dysplasia. These tissue abnormalities sometimes mean the cells are becoming malignant. Some researchers think HPV is involved in as many as 90% to 95% of all cases of dysplasia and cancer of the cervix...
...major contributors to the demeaning, though, unfortunately, honest stereotyping of Kirkland House. Too often the preponderant ingredients of Kirkland's degrading characterization--overtly male-oriented, strongly homophobic, predominately white, and often intolerant--go unacknowledged and sometimes unrecognized by students and administrators. Moreover, these elements are usually misclassified as latent qualities of Harvard athletes, and subsequently dismissed by many persons inside and outside of the house. These excusing attitudes and misnomers are the real barriers to achieving a profound and beneficial diversification of Kirkland House...
...then our former skittishness has presumed that latent in America's cheerful pluralistic soul lies a hot well of anti-Semitic bile, waiting to shoot into a geyser. There's no sure way of telling. In social terms, the eruption of that sort of hatred could be ugly, violent, divisive. In practical terms, blatant anti-Semitism could result in a withdrawal of American tax dollars, leaving the nation that made a garden from a desert as vulnerable to its enemies as a flipped turtle...