Word: treated
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...shared environments can also exist inside the home. Maybe, for example, parents treat siblings differently--doting on Jimmy and screaming at Johnny, say--and that is why Johnny went bad. If Harris is to demolish the nurture assumption, she must somehow dismiss such dynamics...
...drug treatment is available, the best answer is prevention, and several groups are taking action. Alfalfa seeds, which have been implicated in past E. coli outbreaks, are now being irradiated to kill bacteria, and last year the Food and Drug Administration gave the cattle industry the green light to treat meat the same way. The procedure is generally effective, but critics are uneasy, questioning whether it's ever a good idea to irradiate something consumers are intended to ingest...
...grin crack. He takes the rare criticism directed at him by the press and fans a little too personally, but even then only because, at heart, he wants to be liked. "At the ball park, I understand there are certain obligations," he says. "I just want people to treat me as a human being. When I leave the ball park and go home, I'm just Ken." And some topics are still off limits, no matter who the questioner. Before a game last week, seven-year-old Michael Foster spent an hour with Griffey through the Make-a-Wish Foundation...
...appear to be otherwise healthy. Sometimes their hormone levels will return to normal after a few months. So far, there hasn't been a research study large enough to determine whether they should be taking drugs as well. Until there is, most doctors will be understandably reluctant to treat a woman whose only symptom is an oddball number on a blood test...
Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, made headlines in April when a study suggested it could also prevent the disease. But this week, two European studies showed no proof of prevention, casting doubt on earlier hopes. The studies differed in duration (the U.S. study was shorter) and in participants (one European study included low-risk women...