Word: travels
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...more promising approach is to attack the root cause of heart disease: the family of lipoproteins that carry cholesterol through the bloodstream. There are two main kinds of lipoproteins: high density ("good") and low density ("bad.") As the bad lipoproteins travel through the body, they tear at arterial walls, forming a fat-filled scar tissue called plaque. Remove the irritants, and the arteries begin to heal...
...contract from the Welsh National Opera, he bought a house in Cardiff, thinking that he and his wife Lesley would spend their life there. But the house is already sold, and the Terfels now live in London -- that is, when they are not on the road. They always travel together, joined as of four months ago by baby Tomos...
...uncontrollably, but lacked enough English to explain why she was upset. On Day Two, Saskia expressed shock that she was expected to provide sole care for the Lynches' two daughters, ages two and four, while the Lynches were at work; she thought she had come to America primarily to travel and learn English. On Day Three, Saskia announced that she wanted to go home -- then stopped speaking English altogether. Baffled, Cathy found an interpreter, who translated: Saskia said she couldn't be left alone with the Lynch children...
...street, and that she could now find her own way home," Cathy recalls. (An agency spokesman says that she is unfamiliar with the case, but that the standard response is to "do what we can" to help an au pair return home.) Instead the Lynches helped Saskia make her travel arrangements. Then, not wanting to squander their nonrefundable program fee of roughly $2,700, they demanded a replacement. This time, they got a 19-year-old Swede who was all the agency had promised: an English- speaking au pair who provided 12 months of flexible, dependable child care in exchange...
While air travel may be the most popular method of transit, many Harvard students have chosen other methods of getting home...