Word: stream
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...Surgeon General Luther Terry in 1964 issued his landmark report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, and a stream of reforms soon followed. In 1966 cigarette makers were forced to put labels on their packages warning consumers about the health risks of smoking. In 1971 cigarette ads were barred from TV and radio. The medical evidence against smoking, meanwhile, continued to mount; cigarettes were linked to heart disease, emphysema and low-birth- weight babies. In 1986, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released one of the first widely publicized reports on the detrimental effects of passive smoke, the issue shifted...
...whining proves you are a man; talkin' trash makes you cool. Above the Rim, a gamy but conventional film about a high school basketball phenom detoured on his road to Georgetown by Harlem sleaze kings, is all about not letting street sarcasm get you down. A stream of abuse is the musical accompaniment to the choreography of manhood in motion. The high testosterone content may not be all bad. "I do like the boys' rituals of sports," says Ron Shelton, writer- director of the smartly rueful Bull Durham and the zesty White Men Can't Jump. "I like the notion...
...elite research institutions in the world it is unlikely to reduced its production of radioactive and chemical waste, but we need to remain vigilant to ensure that proper disposal methods are utilized. We also need to remain open to new options of reducing this waste stream...
...lost opportunity has been the abandonment of microscale organic laboratory techniques in the teaching labs. The primary benefit to these methods was to reduce exposure levels and, subsequently, the amount of chemical waste generated. All the chemicals used in the teaching labs go straight to the waste stream. I am aware that there was criticism about the program which concerned the quality of the techniques, but Harvard has tried only one of several competing programs. Other microscale programs have been successfully integrated into a large and growing number of schools...
...price of that failure is high. The Washington watchdog group AIDS Action Council can locate "no clear public funding stream" for deaf people. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control, tallying informally, are unable to name major current programs totaling more than $200,000. "In practical terms, that's two, possibly three salaries," including the necessary coverage of employees' health care, says the Rev. Margaret Reinfeld, an official at the AIDS organization AMFAR (American Association for AIDS Research) who recently sat on a CDC external review for prevention programs. "There's absolutely no question that the resources are grossly insufficient...