Word: lengthen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PEOPLE INFECTED WITH HIV, THE AIDS VIRUS, MAY not show overt symptoms for years. Even so, they are often given AZT, a drug believed to lengthen the lives of those with full-blown AIDS. Several studies have shown that AZT can delay the onset of symptoms, though it doesn't prevent or cure the disease...
...extended family does not mean that huge clans will gather under one roof. "They'll want intimacy at a distance," says Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University. The extended family will be more of a network of crisscrossing loyalties and obligations. As life-spans lengthen and marriages multiply, middle-aged couples could find themselves crushed by the responsibilities of caring all at once for aging parents, frail grandparents, children still completing their education and perhaps even a stepgrandchild or two. In short, the "sandwich generation," already feeling so much pressure in the 1990s, could give...
...Shadows begin to lengthen across the courtyard as one last child, a small cross-eyed boy with no parents to wash the red dust out of his matted hair, has his gourd filled and wanders distractedly out the gate. Moments later the iron doors swing shut...
...hope to lengthen it in the future," shesaid. "Maybe eventually it will be an overnightevent."CrimsonMiriam R. FarkouhArea high school students joinLighthouse staffers for conference ongender issues...
...most strongly held beliefs has been that genes -- whether normal or abnormal -- are passed from generation to generation essentially unchanged. Now that assumption is being challenged. Last week scientists announced that in people with a form of muscular dystrophy, they had identified a segment of DNA that can lengthen substantially with each succeeding generation. Most disturbing, as the fragment lengthens, the illness becomes more severe. "This is not your garden-variety genetic defect," says Dr. Leon Charash, who chairs the medical advisory committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...