Word: onsets
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America has long wrestled with the tension between its Puritan and pioneer heritages, and its attitude toward sex has often seemed muddled. Victorian parents, fearful of their children's sexuality, would try to delay the onset of puberty by underfeeding their children. By 1910 exploding rates of syphilis drove the crusade for sex education in much the way AIDS does today. In 1940 the U.S. Public Health Service argued the urgent need for schools to get involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch...
Harvard is well set up for the onset of direct lending and the national service initiative because of its current large-scale system of financial aid, said Corlette. The University as a whole gave out $167.7 million in financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students in 1992, and approximately two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates receive some form of financial...
PEOPLE INFECTED WITH HIV, THE AIDS VIRUS, MAY not show overt symptoms for years. Even so, they are often given AZT, a drug believed to lengthen the lives of those with full-blown AIDS. Several studies have shown that AZT can delay the onset of symptoms, though it doesn't prevent or cure the disease...
Imagine what it must be like to stroll down a street and then suddenly lurch like a drunkard. To see double images of a coffee cup, a friend's face, a newspaper. To feel dizzy because rooms seem to spin like merry-go-rounds. The onset of such symptoms 10 years ago sent Chicago sales representative Suzanne Arens, now 39, stumbling to a neurologist. The diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. "It was devastating," she recalls. "The disease progressed to where I would have an attack every six months. I was hospitalized three times." For the past five years, however, Arens has managed...
Scientists have traditionally thought that the immune attack which characterizes juvenile-onset diabetes occurs as a result of immune cells recognizing and binding to specific response on pancreas cells...