Word: staving
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Pursuit of Happiness An absorbing hobby can help stave off retirement, invigorate the senses, reduce stress and relieve depression...
Ugandan society has been better-equipped to stave off the AIDS epidemic than many other countries, a Cambridge University epidemiologist told an audience at the School of Public Health (SPH) last night...
Senior goalkeeper Katie Zacarian will face two strong offenses and will have to be at her best to stave off their attacks. Furthermore, the Harvard offense must continue to build on the momentum from its last two games—wins over Penn and UMass—and work hard to convert on more scoring opportunities...
...diplomatic firestorm. The first question everyone will ask is, Is it true? And many will wonder if these matters were addressed in the 28 pages censored from Washington's official report on 9/11. It has long been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official. Posner told TIME he got the details of Zubaydah's interrogation and revelations from a U.S. official outside the CIA at a "very...
...focused on one particular group of compounds in soy: the isoflavones, which are also found in lower concentrations in other legumes. Isoflavones are phytoestrogens, or plant estrogens, that weakly imitate the body's estrogen--sometimes they have an estrogenic effect, other times anti-estrogenic. They are thought to help stave off breast cancer, lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, among other things. Just last month a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggested that isoflavones may also reduce the risk of endometrial cancer...