Word: prolongs
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...SURER CURE As horrific as it sounds, castration may be the best way to prolong the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer. A small but significant study shows that men whose cancer has spread to their lymph nodes are five times as likely to survive if they're castrated--chemically, with medication, or surgically, by removing the testes--soon after the prostate gland is removed. Most doctors hold off, sometimes for years, in part because of the heavy consequences: libido usually plummets, and many men experience hot flashes, muscle loss and fatigue. These may be a small price...
Anti-abortion Republicans in Congress stalled Washington's UN payments until the situation became too risky to prolong the debt any longer. But if Clinton agrees to the compromise, he will no doubt invoke a waiver that was written into the deal allowing $15 million to continue to go to agencies involved in family planning and reproductive health care services. Without this waiver, the agreement would inhibit the ability of family planning groups around the world to provide reproductive health care services to women...
...sniffles? You may want to put down that Kleenex. A study released Friday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...
...Even though it didn't count, I think that goal psyched us up," Kalil said. "We came back strong in the second half and we just tried to prolong our crescendo for as long as we could...
...tempted to slip away without saying goodbye. Don't. "If the parent sneaks out, a child never knows what to expect and will cling even more," says Amy Flynn, director of New York's Bank Street Family Center. Once you've said goodbye, leave. "Don't prolong it," says Ucci. "That's just excruciating...