Word: regimen
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...time, at least, the regimen worked wonders on the dropout rate and also enhanced the group's isolation and secrecy. Balch kept tabs on the group until 1982; in 1994 nine cultists walked through his office door in Missoula, Montana, to tell him the 200 or so members that he knew existed in the 1970s had become a band of 24. Nettles, he learned, had died of cancer in 1985. They had also grown dramatically more apocalyptic in their beliefs...
Compared with what it was two years ago, Reagan's world has shrunk considerably. His beloved ranch near Santa Barbara is off-limits and up for sale; his vigorous regimen of old would be too risky today. Phone conversation is increasingly difficult. When he watches television, his comprehension swims in and out of focus. It is, as Nancy has aptly called this final chapter in Reagan's long career, "the long goodbye...
...America wakes up to MORNING-AFTER PILLS. The FDA has okayed the use of megadoses of ordinary birth-control pills, taken within 72 hours of sex, to prevent pregnancy. The regimen, which is 75% effective, is already widely used in Europe...
...Take at least one brisk walk during the day, for 20 to 30 minutes. If you have a regular exercise regimen, try to keep it up through stressful periods...
Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness. So Lori hears of the Ketogenic Diet, a regimen that has quelled seizures in perhaps a third of the epileptic children who've tried it. Among the controversial diet's true believers are the film's director, Jim Abrahams (of the team that created the Airplane! and Naked Gun farces), and his son Charlie, 4, whose seizures ceased after he went on the diet and who plays a cameo role here...