Word: bested
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...eyes of insurance companies, employers and medical personnel (and the weird guy down the street who's always asking about your latest flu shot). The new safeguards, which President Clinton announced Wednesday, are the result of years of discussion - in Washington and among the nation's consumers - over the best way to keep private medical records private in an increasingly public-access world. When the rules, which were initially mandated by Congress, take effect in two years, every patient will be able to decide who sees his or her history; without specific written consent from the patient, the records will...
...next 15 years of globalization, according to the intelligence community, even in its best-case scenario, produces a world considerably more dangerous than the unhappy one we already know. The last decade's unrestricted and accelerated traffic of information, capital, goods, services and people across national borders has been good for business and for innovation and for political freedom, but it has also been good for gangsters and terrorists and pathogens...
...while we're in the Middle East, the intelligence community isn't about to get sentimental about the prospects for peace. At best, the region can hope for a cold peace whose stability is constantly threatened by political, economic and demographic shifts in the Arab world. An ingredient is the continuing population explosion among Muslims. The planet's population is due to increase by more than a billion people by 2015, most of the net gain being in the cities of the Third World where they're unlikely to feel much of the "trickle down" benefit of globalization. In addition...
...scholarships that Harvard has ever used. We no longer eliminate candidates from the bottom, but try to identify those who are very strong in order to endorse them. As it does throughout the competition (and exams and term papers), the burden falls on candidates to make the best possible case for themselves. In its final phase, our committee does consider supporting materials from the Houses, but decisions fall on the basis of what candidates themselves have chosen to submit. However attractive it might be to have recommendations and/or interviews in the review process, the late start of Harvard's academic...
What, exactly, constitutes the best protection against those diseases is a source of raging debate in this country. Many argue that abstinence (and the active teaching of its tenets) is the only safeguard against the scourge of STDs. As this study has demonstrated, however, there appears to be some confusion as to what actual abstinence requires. Sexual health educators argue that withholding information - even if its explicit nature makes us squirm - from teenagers is tantamount to granting them permission to engage in everything but actual intercourse, without understanding the potential consequences...