Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, if you accept the fact that college students are going to drink--a fact that some colleges do--then your efforts shift away from attempts to prevent them from drinking to efforts that recognize they will. The focus becomes ensuring the students' safety when they do drink...
...momentum started to shift Dartmouth's way after center Mike Murray rounded out the scoring in the first period...
This new view has sparked innovations that will manage the process and keep it from killing large numbers of people. "We are going to see a real shift from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention," declares California surgeon Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. Indeed, if all goes well with current clinical trials, women at high risk for breast cancer will soon be able to be screened with a device that removes a sample of breast cells through the nipple. If any cells show signs of the early mutations that lead to cancer, doctors...
...poultry, seafood and game. Similar celebrations featuring exorbitant consumption of animal flesh have marked human victories--in war, sport, politics and commerce--since our species learned to control fire. Throughout the developing world today, one of the first things people do as they climb out of poverty is to shift from their peasant diet of mainly grains and beans to one that is rich in pork or beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat around the globe has more than doubled...
What has proved an unsustainable burden to the life of the planet is also proving unsustainable for the planet's dominant species. In China a recent shift to meat-heavy diets has been linked to increases in obesity, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. U.S. and World Health Organization researchers have announced similar findings for other parts of the world. And then there are the growing concerns about what happens to people who eat the flesh of animals that have been pumped full of genetically modified organisms, hormones and antibiotics...