Word: projects
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...important a factor as too much LDL. On the other hand, the higher the level of HDL, the more it may aid in counteracting the effects of the bad cholesterol. This is the view of Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the Framingham Heart Study, a major research project that for the past 40 years has been following the cardiac history of residents of Framingham, Mass. "A number of us," says Castelli, "feel we can do a much better job of predicting who is at risk of getting heart disease if we look at the LDL and the HDL together...
...recent movie history teaches anything, it is that the higher the comedy concept -- that is to say, the simpler it is to grasp -- the harder people seem to work at trying to lower it. If the project is one of those rare ones that have a possibility of appealing to practically everybody, the ( filmmakers are tempted to ensure that the last cipher in the least-common- denominator audience receives its message loud and clear (especially loud). Hey, his six bucks (or seven) is as good as anyone else...
...public housing to assume responsibility for their dwellings has been hard, but not nearly so difficult as convincing politicians that it can be done. Gray, chairwoman of the Kenilworth-Parkside Resident Management Corp. in Washington, has been leading this fight since 1972. The decision to take control of the project was forced on Gray and her neighbors, she says. Plumbing was broken and heating was, at best, intermittent. So in 1981, deciding "things couldn't get much worse and we had to do something," Gray petitioned the District government to let residents take control. The mayor eventually agreed...
...local day-care center. Later she organized "College Here We Come," a program that has helped send nearly 600 academically gifted youngsters from public housing to colleges throughout the U.S. Since 1981 Gray has helped create a wide range of programs for the 3,500 residents of the project that have paid off in myriad ways: in the past six years dependence on welfare has dwindled from 85% to 2%, administrative costs of the project have dropped by nearly two-thirds, and teenage pregnancies have been cut in half. Along the way, Gray's brand of tenant management has saved...
Similarly, the most notable research project now being planned is the billiondollar Superconducting Super Collider to be built in Texas. This will no doubt be an impressive piece of equipment, of considerable value to American and world particle physicists. But extremely large projects like this eat up tremendous amounts of the budget for basic and applied research. By spreading our money around to a variety of potentially fruitful areas, we will be hedging our bets for technical breakthroughs, and likely get a larger amount of information for our expense...