Word: treates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sensitivity toward local cultures has led even conservative Protestants to treat tribal religion with respect. Missionaries try to banish belief in, and fear of, evil spirits; yet they also plumb the animist religions for concepts of eternal life or of a remote "high god" or primordial creator that might be used to inspire belief in the one God of the Bible. After all, the missionaries point out, Christmas was originally a pagan rite that ancient preachers turned to good advantage...
...techniques to cut out "bad"genes and substitute "good" ones. Now, though, there may be a more immediately applicable way to correct genetic defects. In the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers described an alternative method of genetic manipulation that for the first time has been successfully used to treat a serious disease. The solution: employing a drug to reactivate apparently intact genes that had been dormant since birth...
...drug involved is 5-azacytidine, which until now has been used only to treat cancer. In the most fully described case so far, a 42-year-old man with severe thalassemia, who needed a blood transfusion every two weeks, received a continuous infusion of the drug through a vein in his arm for seven days. At the end of the week, the concentration of healthy red blood cells in his blood had increased by 25%. This beneficial effect persisted for about a month...
...rules require the city to treat all qualifying live-in partners as if they were spouses. For instance, they will have the same visitation rights at local jails and hospitals, and city workers would get a day off to attend a mate's funeral. But what backers were most eager to win was low-cost ($50 a month) health benefits, which city employees will pay for at the same rate as they do for a husband or wife...
More importantly, Carrabino seems to be the only Crimson cager who doesn't treat the first half like a 20-minute warm-up period. Most of his 12 points against Dartmouth came in the first stanza, and he notched six of Harvard's six first-half points at UMass to keep the Crimson within one at the half...