Word: progressivity
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...normal byproduct of metabolism. Like ginkgo, vitamin E has been tested mostly on Alzheimer's patients and has been shown to slow down the advance of the disease as much as seven months--not much for a condition that takes years to do its brain-ravaging work, but progress nonetheless. "There is a lot of evidence that there's oxidative damage in the brain both in the course of normal aging and in Alzheimer's disease," says Neil Buckholtz, chief of the dementias-and-aging branch of the National Institute on Aging. "The idea is to lessen or prevent this...
People have more money and more freedom to decide what to do with their lives. Yes, there are still problems, but the progress China has achieved should not be overlooked. Without money, freedom means nothing. We Chinese can and will become more free through our hard work. CHARBIN LEE Shanghai...
...Unfortunately, the University Hall bureaucracy we...encountered was like one long bad dream," Romanoff says. "Aside from incessant delays in getting our group officially recognized, we were kept uninformed about the progress of the process. Most frustratingly, it took around five months between the time we learned we were official to the time we were granted our web page and e-mail account...
...water polo made huge strides in Coach Floerchinger's second year coaching the men and his first as full-time coach of the women. Harvard continues to make serious progress establishing itself in a sport traditionally dominated by West Coast schools...
...Even if the progress at next week's summit is mostly symbolic, its importance can't be underestimated. "North Korea's leaders have shut themselves off from the outside world to the point where they're seriously out of touch with what's happening all around them," says Dowell, "and that obviously increases the risks that this heavily armed but economically desperate state could be tempted to do something stupid. Everyone involved in the region wants to do whatever they can to integrate North Korea into a wider community." In other words, anything that gets the Dear Leader out more...