Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This should be the year that Dartmouth climbs out of the lower rungs of the conference. It endured a miserable season in 1998-99, but provided last year's terrific freshmen class with a wealth of experience that should pay off this season...
...article released earlier this month, HSPH scientists concluded that eating five servings of fruits and vegetables is associated with a 30 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke. Ischemic stroke--the most common type of stroke--is caused by a blockage of blood vessels in the brain...
Walter C. Willett, a co-author of the HSPH study, says no one nutritional component of produce is responsible for lower health risks...
...countries may be different than it is in industrialized countries. "In the industrialized countries, people are living a lot longer today, and if you live into your eighties or nineties, the effects of tobacco become much more pronounced," says Dowell. "But life expectancy in the Third World is considerably lower, and they may therefore not notice the effects of smoking as compared with other factors that are hurting them." Banning cigarette advertising would in the long run strip tobacco of some of its social cachet in the developing world. But right now Big Tobacco may be more vulnerable to lawsuits...
Listen closely, though, and you can hear undercurrents of tension: black kids complaining about being misunderstood by white teachers and singled out as troublemakers; black parents worrying that their children are held to lower academic standards; white teachers whispering about undisciplined, unmotivated black students...