Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film truly do justice to a literary work? It's a question almost as old as film itself, since the cinema started borrowing from literature nearly right from its onset. The modern debate often dwindles to a simple "The book was better!" or "I hated the book but I loved the movie!" Films based on novels are so entrenched in popular culture that the original literature is often left behind when the film is discussed, with perhaps a passing reference to the director or an actor that captures a certain feel or mood of the work...
...With the onset of globalization, Abdullah said, ensuring security in the Middle East is necessary to bringing prosperity to the region...
...telling students the devices fail to protect against hiv anywhere from 10% to 43% of the time (as opposed to the 1% failure rate claimed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when condoms are used properly). Students view graphic slides of a uterus before and after the onset of pelvic inflammatory disease. At a recent abstinence class for seventh- and eighth-graders at nearby West Middle School, lecturer Rene Rochester gave a pep talk urging students to stem their sexual urges by "controlling...adrenaline" flow...
...more vigilant use of contraceptives--is behind the trend. The government is one year into a three-year, $6 million assessment, but so far, few reputable studies of abstinence-only programs have been conducted. "The five published evaluations of abstinence-only programs did not find a delay in the onset of sexual intercourse, but the jury is still out," says Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist who has studied abstinence programs for ETR Associates, a nonprofit health-education and research organization based in Santa Cruz, Calif. He adds that 11 studies show programs that combine an abstinence message with information...
...trusty Harvard Yard sanctuary for studious undergrads turned 50 this year and celebrated the onset of middle age in the most American of ways--with a facelift...