Word: uncertainities
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...help his struggling family by throwing newspapers and selling milk from the cow. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he served in the Army during World War II. Then, like millions of others, he returned home in 1945 to earn a living and raise a family in an uncertain peacetime economy...
...feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally, is a display of the allure of power at its best--Blanchett's charisma becomes palpable, blazing, a force to be reckoned with...
...power that allowed Jefferson to compel Hemings into his bed. It was power which allowed the affair to go on for so many years. It was power which left Hemings' manumission uncertain. Hemings could have had absolutely no agency in such an arrangement, as no slave in a situation with a white master ever had. Numerous masters engaged in sexual activity with their slaves, threatening that they would be sold or worse if they did not comply. Why do we assume Jefferson should have been any different...
...melatonin, a hormone produced in the brain, to ease sleeping disorders. While Mukai participated in this part of the experiment, Glenn was disqualified for reasons NASA would not disclose. Although melatonin is currently used by millions of Americans looking to improve their sleep, its effectiveness is uncertain. Mukai was given a placebo on some nights and melatonin on others. Besides studying the effects on her sleep, Czeisler will test its effects on Mukai's cognitive performance and short-term memory...
Officials with the AAMC are uncertain about the cause of the recent downturn, which follows eight consecutive years of increasing medical school applicants...