Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that the plants are vital to the survival of many animals...
President Reagan should be commended for his handling of the situation in El Salvador [March 2]. Since our nations share the same continent, our vital interests and national security are at stake, not just because that country is experiencing civil strife, but because that struggle is being actively supported by the Soviet Union...
...Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the north and the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam to the south. That American-built facility has fulfilled the Soviets' long-held, often frustrated desire for a warm-water naval base halfway between Vladivostok and the politically volatile, economically vital Persian Gulf-Indian Ocean region, where the superpowers are now circling each other warily...
...hospitality to the housewife. Yet in recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin for sugar metabolism. Pancreatic cancer claims 22,000 lives a year. It is the fifth largest cause of cancer death in the U.S., behind cancer of the lungs, colon, breast and prostate. It is also virtually incurable; fewer than 2% of patients survive five...
These high schoolers may be mental giants, but some of their other vital parts are overactive too. A Central Square hooker complained in August of last year that she had been inundated by 16-year-old clients. "I won't take their money: any kid on mine do that, and I'd beat him till he hurt...