Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dislike Ms. For years I did what many parents do--I asked my daughter's friends to call me by my first name. We parents claim it's simpler that way. The truth is that we think the informality will keep us young and cool and prevent us from becoming our parents. Instead, we become the reluctant peers of our kids and their friends, who skip into the kitchen to ask, "Hey Amy, got a soda?" I've dealt with this discomfort by asking my young friends to call me Miss Amy. This has gone over limply, at best...
...quite possibly in Washington, where the current HMO debate is raging ? the best medical treatment isn?t worth anything if you can?t afford it. So it came as momentous news on Wednesday when a joint American-Ugandan research team announced a new, simple and inexpensive way to help prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus from pregnant mother to child. The new treatment uses the drug nevirapine, whose costs amounts to about $4, instead of the standard, short-course AZT regimen used in the Third World, whose costs total an impractical $268. Better yet, the new method proved more...
...used in the United States," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. "But in the Third World, where costs and infrastructure make that kind of treatment impossible, this allows you to do something instead of nothing." And that something is not inconsequential: Researchers estimate that the new nevirapine regimen could prevent 300,000 to 400,000 newborns each year from being infected by HIV. In the developing world, where 1,800 babies are born each day with the AIDS virus, this is revolutionary medicine...
...close completely. Even though you feel fine, your insurance company jacks up your premiums, citing research from the past 20 years that shows you're at greater risk of dying suddenly or suffering a stroke. Your dentist makes you take antibiotics every time you get your teeth cleaned to prevent a potentially fatal infection of your defective valve. And your family starts treating you like an invalid...
...remembered all this last month as MTV began airing its newest and highest-rated season ever of The Real World. In an effort to relive my past, and possibly give MTV enough busywork to prevent it from developing any more non-music-video programming, I asked the station to dig up my tryout tapes...