Word: onset
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...princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With no kings and queens, princes and princesses, fairy tales will die. Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury Calcutta, India The British royal family should have let Charles propose to Camilla right from the onset. Broken hearts, broken families and unnecessary death would have been avoided. If it had not been for Charles' on-and-off affair with Camilla, he would not have been separated or divorced from Diana. Diana would not have taken up with Dodi Fayed, and there would have been...
...Just about everybody was poor, with the exception of a very small minority of rulers and large landowners. Life was as difficult in much of Europe as it was in India or China. Your great-great-grandparents were, with very few exceptions, poor and living on a farm. The onset of the Industrial Revolution, supported by a rise in agricultural productivity, unleashed an explosive period of modern economic growth. Both population and per-capita income came unstuck, rising at rates never before imagined. The global population rose more than sixfold in just two centuries, while the world's average...
...health officials issue an alert on the basis of one case? The man had reportedly had hundreds of recent sexual partners, and if a new strain of HIV was indeed responsible for his quick onset of AIDS, then alerting people early--and emphasizing the importance of safe sex practices--could prevent the spread of the virus...
...over-the-counter supplement DHEA--which has been banned from college and Olympic sports--effectively treats midlife-onset depression in 50% of patients ? Children whose mothers work odd hours score lower on tests of cognitive development, probably because the kids aren't enrolled in day care ? Elderly patients cared for by their spouses are at higher risk of abuse...
...onset of democracy has given Iraqis great hope that their fate is now in their own hands. And that reality may soon significantly alter the terms of post-Saddam Iraq's relationship with...