Word: modestly
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...that it has proved effective only when accompanied by significant changes in diet and exercise and just for a few months. It remains to be seen whether patients will have to stay on the drug indefinitely to maintain their weight loss, and whether some will undo the drug's modest benefits by eating more...
...Melbourne, Florida, the first sign of coming events was modest. On a lot across from the Aware Woman Center for Choice, which performs abortions, two portable toilets sprouted. They were put there by Operation Rescue, the militant pro-life organization that had bought the property in part to demonstrate near the clinic without violating a court-ordered buffer zone. Soon, locals knew, video cameras would appear -- toted by nearly every actor in the coming passion play: pro-lifers and pro-choicers taping each other, police taping both and TV-news teams taping everybody. "There's probably more money spent...
...dams could face a more radical solution. The modest-size Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, produces electricity but prevents many fish, including salmon and shad, from reaching their spawning grounds. Audubon and Trout Unlimited have called for the dam's removal. So too has the state's Governor, John McKernan Jr.Studies of the proposal and the potential legal brawls could take years, but even the thought of tearing down a dam for ecological reasons is highly unusual...
While the bulk of published research has indeed found some correlation between watching fictitious violence and behaving aggressively, the correlation is statistically quite modest; most of the observed "aggressiveness" is bratty boisterousness, not violence. And causality -- he sees Walker, Texas Ranger and therefore seriously hurts someone -- is nowhere convincingly demonstrable. Even Brandon Centerwall, a prominent anti- TV researcher at the University of Washington, figures that watching TV increases kids' average level of physical aggressiveness only...
COVERING THE UNINSURED. Twenty-seven states have established comprehensive insurance associations, essentially high-risk pools financed with state money, that offer medical insurance to people in poor health who need extensive care but cannot now buy insurance to pay for it. Iowa has an especially modest program: it forbids insurance companies to turn down people who already have insurance but apply for new policies -- because they change jobs perhaps -- on the basis of pre-existing conditions. The law applies only to insurers of companies with 50 or fewer employees, but "it's a start," says Tim Gibson, spokesman...