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...retrain, refocus and reshape the welfare system county by county, inspiring a hands-on, more heartfelt attitude among hardened social workers and abuse investigators. Greater emphasis was placed on restrengthening and rebuilding families by setting up programs in their own neighborhoods and communities in order to lessen the disruption of children's lives. The average stay in foster care dropped from 14 months to three. Alabama, though a rural state in the American South, won early praise for its progressive ideas and was considered a potential model for national reform...
Newman spoke for all of the schools when she concluded that space needs will not lessen over time...
...make progress, both sides must widen their focus and stop expending effort for symbolic victories on the fringes of the reproductive policy debate. Let us agree to work together, to lessen the number of unwanted pregnancies, to increase the percentage of adoptions and to put aside rhetoric to lower the number of abortions performed. Wouldn't that be a great accomplishment in this election year...
Speedo's Fastskin suit mimics a shark's dermal denticles, V-shaped ridges that lessen drag by directing water flow away from the body. Adidas' version uses a compression Lycra that, the company claims, minimizes muscle vibration. Swimming's international governing body has ruled the suits do not enhance performance, and they can be worn at the Olympics. Tom Malchow, for one, will be wearing one. The 1996 Olympic silver medalist smashed the world record in the 200-m butterfly in one of the suits earlier this month. No wonder USA Swimming's Charlie Snyder predicts "a massive dressing room...
...progress nonetheless. "There is a lot of evidence that there's oxidative damage in the brain both in the course of normal aging and in Alzheimer's disease," says Neil Buckholtz, chief of the dementias-and-aging branch of the National Institute on Aging. "The idea is to lessen or prevent this damage...