Word: skips
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...zeros in disproportionately on poor migrants, it does not skip over the educated or the well paid. Soldiers, doctors, policemen, teachers, district administrators are also routinely separated from families by a civil-service system that sends them alone to remote rural posts, where they have money and women have no men. A regular paycheck procures more access to extramarital sex. Result: the vital professions are being devastated...
Panelists--including W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree and a number of jazz experts and critics--explored the impact of jazz on American history and culture through the context of the documentary...
...doled out like candy doesn't mean they always sweeten things up. A survey finds that 70% of patients treated for depression by primary-care physicians think their medication doesn't fully alleviate their symptoms. And because of side effects such as reduced sex drive, one-fifth of patients skip doses and half stop taking the pills altogether. Among those who discussed side effects with their doctor, 20% said their complaints were ignored. If you're depressed, medication can help. If your doctor is not helping, find another...
...Friends--a scripted hit with actors who get more expensive with every contract--is the old-line antithesis of Survivor, a moneymaking machine with disposable stars and no writers. (Even its product placements may be a sign of TV's future, when digital video recorders could allow viewers to skip traditional commercials...
...late teens or early 20s. Over the years, its harrowing symptoms--hallucinations, persistent voices, paranoia and frozen emotions--have been blamed on everything from witchcraft to the evil eye. Now scientists realize that schizophrenia is a complex syndrome resulting from the failure of various neurotransmitters--the chemical messengers that skip from one nerve cell to the next--including dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxytryptamine. "Certainly it's not caused by bad parenting," says Vinogradov. Knowing which neurotransmitters are implicated in the disease gives drugmakers precise targets around which to design better anti-schizophrenia compounds...