Word: resorted
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...daughter of a Protestant minister, Merkel was born in Hamburg and grew up in the East German resort town of Templin. She joined the Young Pioneers, a communist youth group, but focused mainly on her studies. At home, her family talked politics nonstop, but, she said in her autobiography, "it was completely theoretical because we could not change anything." After studying physics at Leipzig University, she began looking for work. Applying for a job at a technical institute, she was approached by the secret police to spy on colleagues. She says she begged off, telling them she couldn't keep...
...that better matches their condition. Some doctors are already starting to use the scans to figure out which of their otherwise healthy-seeming patients need to be taking cholesterol-lowering drugs like statins, and may even be able to decide what to do in marginal cases without having to resort to an invasive angiogram. Patients with a clean scan, on the other hand, can feel confident that they don't need statins or other medication, along with their potential side effects...
...President Bush today took a break from his vacation in Texas to vacation at an exclusive resort in Idaho. Ringo Starr has a busier schedule." --JIMMY KIMMEL...
...daughter just entered her teens, a time I had been dreading. But after reading your articles on "Being 13" [Aug. 8], I realized I won't need to resort to medication to cope with the exciting changes that she will undergo over the next few years. Thanks...
...appeal of caring for the property of others is as varied as the people who take those positions. For Don Davison, 72, a retired banker in Knowlton, Quebec, the decision was strictly financial. "I can rent my condo, which is in a resort area, for three months and make a chunk of change that will help me overcome inflation, since my pension isn't indexed," Davison says. Still, he needed someplace to live for three months. The solution: he took a position as summer house manager at his ski club at Mont Tremblant, in eastern Canada, where he lives rent...