Word: treated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese mainland and Taiwan two parts of the same country. From now on, declared Lee, Taiwan intended to operate on a "state-to-state" basis with the mainland, demanding that Beijing treat the island as an equal. This "clarification" to Beijing's ears seemed touchily close to a declaration of independence. China, which has always vowed to keep hold of Taiwan by force if necessary, responded with a verbal fusillade. Warned Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao: "Don't underestimate the courage...
...world wanted nothing more than to be a normal guy, to put people at ease. Born to a father who understood politics as a performance art, he hoped at one time to become an actor, but wound up as an editor of a magazine that promised to treat politics as entertainment, which could be seen as a strange gesture toward the arena in which his father and uncle had died...
...events, "Culture for Kids", which is slated to begin next year, will treat kids to ethnic foods and art workshops, and feature an ethnic lunch for adults picking up their children from the event...
...population, they make up only 9% of those who visit doctors, the journal Pediatrics reported last week. The reason is not so much good health or poverty, but rather that young people consider it "uncool" to seek medical attention. Yearly checkups are essential so physicians can find and treat chronic conditions. And since the teen suicide rate has more than doubled in the past 20 years, an appointment also gives doctors a chance to screen for depression...
...calories. That may sound strict, but it doesn't go nearly far enough to satisfy Dr. Dean Ornish, a University of California cardiologist and dean of the eat-right-for-a-healthy-heart school of medicine. Ornish has long maintained that changes in diet and lifestyle can treat heart disease as effectively as drugs and surgery--perhaps even more so. But modest reductions in fat intake, he says, usually do your heart no good...