Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlikely that administration attitudeswill change, unless, as Tufts Director of StudentActivities Jodie A. Nealley predicts will happen,students begin to put more weight on theavailability of such facilities when choosing acollege...
...long run, though, the University will also have to address a more fundamental problem with its tenure process. The lack of regard for students' concerns has become painfully apparent. Like most of the rest of the nation's colleges and universities, Harvard gives disproportionate weight to research experience in making its tenure decisions...
...breakfast cereals and breads are fortified with D. However, you have to drink a quart of milk to get even 400 IUs. Again, a supplement makes sense. And because your body adjusts bone mass to the loads your skeleton is called upon to support, it is important to do weight-bearing exercises...
...Saunders, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., grandmother, had the symptoms: rapid weight loss, rashes, fever. But when she went to her local health clinic, a nurse asked incredulously, "What's an old woman like you doing getting an HIV test...
...dirty laundry," says John Gargotta, supervisor for the Senior HIV Intervention Project, an AIDS advocacy group. Most troubling, though, is that doctors often fail to consider HIV as a possible illness among their senior patients. As a result, the elderly are often misdiagnosed. Also, AIDS symptoms like dementia and weight loss can mimic the ravages of old age. "So there is a higher prevalence of people being diagnosed in the month of death," says Dr. Karl Goodkin, an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Goodkin, who is conducting a national study on the rate of cognitive...