Word: two-year-old
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...became director of the two-year-old Asia Center, a hub for scholarship and research in the field...
Last week Yasser Arafat made an effort to assuage concerns about his rule within the Palestinian Authority by announcing that he wants to hold overdue elections by year's end and signing a two-year-old bill guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary. But for a growing number of people within his organization, it's too little too late. Palestinian Authority members are haggling over reforms that include a plan to shift Arafat to a symbolic role as President. Senior Palestinian officials tell TIME that the shake-up would install Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas--an Arafat ally...
...this because it’s clear the message hasn’t reached a segment of the campus. Just this past weekend, some students thought it would be pretty cool to destroy a stroller belonging to a two-year-old in Pforzheimer House. And this was the second time in recent months. What, is this some campaign of terror against infant transportation? If you’re trying to send a message to married resident tutors across Harvard, the only communication received is that you deserve to be beaten with my sourcebook until I can’t even...
...More than 30 years later, Ngoc thinks of those shriveled trees as he watches his two-year-old daughter crying on a straw mat, waving her crippled limbs. Unable to sit up by herself, Trang is one of dozens of malformed babies born in Bien Hoa, where birth defects occur three to four times more often than in other parts of the country, according to a leading Vietnamese researcher. The prime suspect is Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant sprayed for nine years by U.S. warplanes over southern Vietnam. Nicknamed for the orange stripes on its storage barrels, Agent Orange contains...
...that assumption is the subject of renewed debate, thanks to a two-year-old Danish study. The controversial paper, first published in the British journal The Lancet and updated last October, posits that numerous flaws in current mammography technique render the results virtually useless. It also suggests that while mammograms may mean earlier detection of breast cancer, earlier detection does not necessarily mean a lower mortality rate. Specialists across the country met this proposition with outrage, fearing it could keep women from maintaining their mammography schedule...