Word: staving
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Before this summer, I was a binge drinker. I would avoid coffee like the plague until the day when, say, I had two midterms on one hour of sleep. Then I would down up to 10 cups—as many as needed to stave off sleep for a few more critical hours...
...DEFENSE IN THE DAIRY CASE A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D can stave off the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Women in the study fared best when they got four daily servings of low-fat or skim milk. Is that too much milk? Try fortified orange juice or such low-fat dairy foods as yogurt and cheese...
What does alternative energy have to do with national security? Gray and Podesta are part of an unlikely alliance of neoconservatives, farmers and union and environmental leaders who want to wean the U.S. of its oil habit--some for purely green reasons (to stave off global warming), but others for the sake of cutting U.S. dependence on the volatile Middle East. And they have some radical ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into...
...America, Saturdays, 9 P.M. E.T.) The BBC's The Office introduced us to the uncomfortable pleasures of working. This sitcom introduces us to the uncomfortable pleasures of not working. Each episode, set in an office break room, follows the meandering conversations of office malcontents as they puff cancer sticks, stave off boredom and consider such weighty matters as how the theme song to Little House on the Prairie went. It's a worthwhile way to kill half an hour--without the risk of secondhand smoke...
...effort to scramble for a compromise candidate to oppose the German. Ratzinger as Pope, one source told Zizola, would amount to a "symbolic and institutional registering of the defeat? of the reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Tettamanzi, who succeeded Martini in Milan, may be the man to stave off a Ratzinger rout in the early balloting. He is seen as a largely conciliatory figure who can talk with both the progressives and traditionalists. Doubts remain, however, about whether Tettamanzi has the mojo to make a formidable pope. The 71-year-old has weak foreign-language skills...