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While the coaches wish to protect Adu and allow him to develop his game at a relatively slow pace, fans and critics have already begun clamoring to see him play immediately in order to determine if he is truly capable of leading the United States to a World Cup title in 2006, as hoped by American soccer enthusiasts...
...They let the entire system off the hook when they said, ‘We’ll do it with all deliberate speed,’” Ogletree said, referring to a controversial clause in the decision. “That means slow...
...many were helped? The growth of the marriage-industrial complex has not done much to slow the national divorce epidemic. In 1965 the divorce rate was 2.5 per 1,000 people; it reached a high in 1979 and 1981, with 5.3 per 1,000. Today the figure hovers at about 4.0, pretty much where it has been for five years. In some quarters, the suspicion has lingered that the therapist's job is to validate a patient's complaints and act as ministers in reverse, putting couples asunder. "The idea of therapist neutrality often came down to support for breaking...
...small group of people living in northern Italy, this super HDL is even more protective against heart disease than regular HDL. In a study released this past fall, researchers injected a synthetic version of ApoA-1 Milano into 47 patients and found that unlike drugs that merely slow the dangerous buildup of plaque in the arteries, super HDL reduced the size of the plaques--and did so in the dramatically short period of five weeks. The experimental drug also stabilized the plaques that remained and reduced their level of inflammation, making them less likely to burst. Though the study...
Researchers in Boston found that high blood levels of vitamins B6 and B12, along with folate, are linked to a reduced risk of breast cancer in some women. And another study, at Georgetown, suggested that B12 and B6 may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease by lowering blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine...