Word: vein
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...musical, like “Smokey Joe’s Café” or “Footloose,” in which popular tunes from the movie were sung by actors on stage. It might even have worked with a heavy dash of irony, in the vein of “Urinetown” or “Avenue Q,” self-conscious about the ridiculousness of musical theater. But instead, the minds behind “High Fidelity” attempt to make Hornby’s decidedly shiftless and self-centered protagonist sing...
...young children in the developing world and the cause of one-third of child deaths in Bangladesh. Her 15-year-old mother, Jharana, had never heard of diarrhea before she was advised to take Sohag to ICDDR's hospital. There, the baby received saline solution through a vein in her arm, and a rice-based solution through a tube in her nose. Weak as she is, patients like Sohag who make it to a hospital are the lucky ones. Most of them are treated and released within a few days, as her doctor expected Sohag would be. But many children...
...working together,” HCNR Director Adrian J. Ivinson said.Martin managed Harvard’s merger with the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute in 1999. The move brought together more than 800 Harvard faculty and received a $50 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a similar vein, the Martin administration drove the development of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, which funnels investments from businesses to the medical community.Martin also launched the HCNR, which helped link 700 scientists in an effort to combat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Martin also pushed...
...same vein, Adrian Bauman, director of the Australian Centre for Health Promotion, notes that high blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as physical inactivity, are more prevalent in the population than obesity. "Yet obesity has captured the hearts and minds of the media," says Bauman. "And it's done that because it's graphic. It is depictable. It's boring to show physical inactivity, because it's just people being inert." Likewise, increasing weight is relatively easy to measure, he says. "So all of a sudden we have an epidemic of obesity interest. Not that we haven...
...same vein, Muslim political advocacy groups are much more visible and influential in the U.S. than in Europe. Walk into the headquarters of the Islamic Society of North America on the outskirts of Indianapolis, Ind., for example, and you will see stacks of religious literature ready to be mailed. But you will also see stacks of thick guides to the IRS code. Setting up and running their own religious institutions gives Muslims a stake in the society while teaching them valuable skills in self-government and democracy...