Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During the night, two guys asked me to confirm stories they'd heard about life within our mysterious Ivory Tower. Another guy was thrilled to meet me because he'd never before met a Harvard student; he'd known theoretically that we existed, but he'd never seen living proof...
Deshaun and Harvard are proof...
...highly active immune system, which may play a role. Their resistance to cancer, however, has nothing to do with their cartilage, despite extravagant claims by people who peddle shark-cartilage pills. While the cartilage has proved promising as an ingredient in temporary artificial skin for burn patients, no proof whatever exists that it can prevent tumors in humans...
...anticipating my next line of questioning, she offers that indeed money does make some things easier and is a great blessing but that money "doesn't protect you from life's sufferings. Tears are the same whether they fall on silk damask or cotton." She has current proof of that. She and her husband, a government lawyer and the mayor of Takoma Park, Md., have just separated. With her 14-year-old daughter upstairs and the pain still palpable, she doesn't want to talk further about...
...Saddam Hussein offers proof that he has nukes, and says, by the way, he'd really like to rule Kuwait. Oil prices soar. No one thinks about inflation; it's dead. The Dow jumps to a 265-point gain, led by Chevron and Exxon...