Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Harvard prides itself on having counseling services availableto those who seek them, how many counselors are trained to understand the problems of students from different cultural backgrounds...
...aerobic (to condition the cardiovascular system); eat a diet rich in calcium and low in fat. And, of course, there are other drugs for heart disease and several promising new ones in the pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have become all the rage among women of a certain age. Yams contain a weak form of estrogen. San Francisco nutritionist Linda Ojeda, author of Menopause Without Medicine, advocates soybeans, which contain a natural progesterone as well as estrogen...
...Grady was learning that too, as he lay concealed at the outset of what would turn into a harrowing six-day game of hide-and-seek. When the Serbs' first search missed him, sometimes passing as close as 3 to 5 ft. from him, O'Grady hugged the earth and remained frozen. Staying concealed when it was light, O'Grady sought safer cover each night with agonizing slowness. In all, he ranged no more than two miles from the spot where he had landed...
...from scratch, they also approach their gardening with a professional zeal. Traditional gardeners have customarily sought advice over the back fence, from wise neighbors with experience in their particular climate, or from grandparents with a lifetime of trial and error to draw upon. The power gardener, however, doesn't seek wisdom; he seeks information. And so gardening has entered the information...
...results were as impressive as they were diverse. One student group used the Internet to track acid rain on the polar ice cap. Another communicated with researchers kayaking through South America. A class from Tucson, Arizona, invented a modern version of hide-and-seek called Where Are We? in which players zero in on one another's location by exchanging hints through E-mail...