Word: overtness
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...contacted members of the NAACP," she said. "Neither John nor I have made any overt claims of racism...
...Although students favor a progressive, inclusive theology that is attuned to the social conditions of the present, many say they distrust overt displays of conservative religion...
...Hollow Lands, having its premiere at the South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, Calif., is not your garden-variety revisionist history. Bleak and Brechtian in style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster...
Hyperbole? Sure. But it may also be true. It is conventional wisdom among scientists that having the complete genetic blueprint for humans will transform medicine--with new classes of drugs, new kinds of treatments and new definitions of disease based not on overt symptoms but on underlying genetic defects. Armed with a patient's genetic data, doctors may someday be able to diagnose diseases before they occur or prescribe medications custom-made to fit each patient's unique genetic profile...
What's better for a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder--behavior therapy or medications like Ritalin? The answer is, well, complicated. A new report shows medication alone or combined with therapy is decidedly more effective than therapy alone in reducing overt symptoms of adhd--the off-the-wall jumpiness and inattentiveness that exhausted parents know all too well. But combining drugs with behavior therapy seems to benefit kids in ways that drugs alone don't--like enabling them to make friends more easily and even score higher on achievement tests...