Word: optionally
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...national governments, education ministries and school systems around the world provide students with more sex education at an earlier age than what they usually get now. As they mature, students would get more detailed information about avoiding pregnancy and disease. The goal is simple: with contraception often not an option in many parts of the world - and vaccines to prevent diseases like AIDS still unavailable - UNESCO hopes that teaching children more about the risks of sexual activity will help them steer clear of such perils. The organization believes this could be one way to scale back the 111 million...
...recent academic history, I admit, looks more like the first option than the second. When the wind starts to bite, generally in late October, I often find myself hopelessly facing a pile of books full of pristine, note-free margins. It’s a vicious cycle—such a situation can be so upsetting that I fail to open even one. And then, when the time comes to sell the volumes back, I can’t remember why I bought them in the first place...
Instead, the phones will be loaned out at the end of the semester among the students enrolled in CS 50—a number that usually reaches roughly 300—as one option for their final projects. Malan said he sees the phones as “a welcome experiment” to enhance an already comprehensive curriculum...
Pharmacy and lab testing benefits will instead be available under the supplemental portion of the University’s student health insurance plan. Students covered under their parents’ insurance plans have the option of waiving the supplemental coverage...
...posture has been to take to the table things that my caucus has said they want health-care reform to be or not be." Among the demands that Grassley says he has made that reflect his commitment to conservative orthodoxy: no rationing of health care, no government-run public option to compete with private insurance, no requirement that employers provide health coverage and an insistence that malpractice lawsuits be curbed...