Word: prolonged
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...related questions: How soon should I talk about child predators to my kids, and how should I couch such a conversation? I have two daughters, ages 10 and 5, and they interact with adults of all sorts-coaches, teachers, friends, relatives and, in Asia, household help. I want to prolong the innocence with which my children view the world, yet warn them of its dangers. This is tricky, particularly in Asia, where children are welcomed and cherished with a delight that is as genuine as it is-from a Western perspective at least-threatening. Malay shopkeepers call children baby-jaan...
...second straight outstanding performance on the mound from its ace wasn’t enough to prolong the Harvard softball team’s season.Albany (34-16, 14-9 America East) topped the Crimson, 1-0, in an elimination game in the NCAA Championships at the Hempstead Regional, sending Harvard (31-15, 16-6 Ivy) home despite a second complete game in as many days from junior hurler Shelly Madick.Madick, the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, threw six innings and allowed just one run, a day after she had gone the distance in a tough nine-inning...
...That may well be true, but there are lots of people who can prolong the controversy, and that's exactly what the Democrats intend to do. First, they plan to expand the investigation beyond the eight U.S. attorneys who were fired. Judiciary staffers say the Senate committee will look at other U.S. attorney offices around the country for signs of Justice or White House politicization, including districts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Jersey. They intend to hold more hearings targeting Gonzales' involvement in the firings and raising further questions about his truthfulness in testifying. "The longer the microscope...
...addition to showing that the vaccine can prolong remission, Bendandi's trial attempted to solve the long-standing problem of quantifying the results of custom-made treatments. Advanced drug trials require a control group, one whose members share key characteristics with those in the experimental arm, but who receive a placebo or another treatment rather than the one under study. According to Bendandi, randomized testing of custom-made vaccines would be meaningless because each patient in the experimental arm receives a different treatment. So he set about proving efficacy in another way. "The course of the study design...
...dreaming, in which people become aware in the course of a dream that they are, in fact, dreaming, and are able to control the course of events-a phenomenon that strengthens the case for higher-brain involvement in dream construction. The lucid dreamer can apparently apply certain techniques to prolong the dream and take it in delightful directions. "The experiences are so convincing," says Victoria University's Bruck, "it seems as if another level of reality exists...