Word: straightforwardness
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...wasn’t very open about a lot of things,” she said. “He would selectively have short responses to certain types of questions, he was sort of evasive about certain questions. He would joke things off rather than giving you a straightforward answer...
...best treatment of all, of course, is to prevent strokes from happening in the first place. The steps doctors recommend are pretty straightforward. If you have high blood pressure, reduce it. If your cholesterol level is high, lower it. If you smoke, stop. If you drink, do it moderately. If you're overweight, reduce. And if you are sedentary, exercise...
...want to cut to the chase, a straightforward guide is the way to go. But which one? Some, like Online Dating for Dummies by Judith Silverstein and Michael Lasky (Wiley; 288 pages) are too dumb for their own good. Dummies has the occasional good tip, like avoiding negativity in your profile, but it's packed with no-brainers like "If you don't have e-mail now, you're gonna have to get it" and "Some people, men and women, do seek purely sexual liaisons on the Internet...
...possible to make fuel, air and water on-site, it is also possible to grow food. Mars has plenty of soil, and if chemical samplers like those aboard Spirit prove that Mars dust isn't poisonous, it would be a relatively straightforward job to assemble a greenhouse-like enclosure, raise the temperature, pump up the atmosphere and plant a few seeds. Donald Henninger, a NASA chief scientist, has identified 13 crops that could thrive in a space habitat, including wheat, potatoes, soybeans and salad greens. "You can take stored food along, but how long does it last?" he asks...
...reassuring that the U.S. government waited so long to put into operation measures so important, yet relatively straightforward and inexpensive. Despite all the rhetoric about security and “being ready,” US-VISIT is a program that could have been implemented a few years...