Word: persistent
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...debate gets downright vicious when the subject turns to "chronic Lyme disease," a catch-all term that means different things to different people. Some patient advocates and their medical allies believe the Lyme spirochete tends to persist in the body even after standard antibiotic treatment. This camp generally favors intravenous antibiotic therapy to treat chronic Lyme. On the other hand, some academic researchers and their allies argue that people with chronic Lyme fall into one of two categories: they either have hypersensitive immune systems that have overreacted to an earlier, no longer viable, Lyme infection--in which case antibiotics...
...promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims who complain that their symptoms seem to persist, not the doctors who are called upon to treat those victims, not the scientists who are being asked to solve a medical mystery that no one has been able to define clearly. There are now so many mixed messages about exactly what Lyme is and how it should be treated that...
Mansfield says that while papers look "much better" now, some problems still persist...
...those who choose to cram, finding study space in campus libraries is often a challenge. The advent of a 24-hour schedule at Cabot library may alleviate some crowding into prime study hours, but library stake-outs seem a tradition destined to persist...
...traditions are well worth preserving while others deserve to be expunged. We have little trouble placing final clubs in the latter camp, and this, the 25th anniversary of Harvard's last all-male graduation, seems an especially appropriate time to call for their demise. While the all-male clubs persist with no end in sight, there has been more widespread recognition this year than in the past by the administration and elements within the student body that the clubs are downright destructive...