Word: support
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...glamour and fame into a celebrity. Yukta, then 15, told her family that she too would one day wear a glittering crown. Her parents smiled at her adolescent fantasies, talked about college and dismissed the whimsical ambition. But Yukta sulked and threw tantrums and eventually persuaded her father to support her participation in the 1999 Miss India contest. She won that title and later became Miss World, planting fantasies, no doubt, in the minds of other teenage Indian girls. Now those kids have even more inspiration to draw from. Last week another Indian, Lara Dutta, who was chosen this year...
...some $100,000 in seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Potrykus and Beyer launched what turned into a seven-year, $2.6 million project, backed also by the Swiss government and the European Union. "I was in a privileged situation," reflects Potrykus, "because I was able to operate without industrial support. Only in that situation can you think of giving away your work free...
Despite his testimonial, there is no evidence to support that moderation works--or, for that matter, doesn't work. Medical studies have consistently shown that abstinence for alcoholics can lead to improved health and a longer life-span. But those findings don't address the crux of the matter: Are all problem drinkers alcoholics? Related to that is another question: Are problem drinkers more likely to fail at moderation or abstinence...
Some of this support was the result of a deliberate campaign by the Giles family to get prominent figures in the media industry to lobby Mass. Hall...
...Yasser, the party's over. President Clinton turned on the lights Friday in a bid to halt Chairman Arafat's reveling in resurgent support following his refusal during the Camp David talks to back down on Jerusalem. After all, the Palestinian leader now has to come up with an alternative, and President Clinton issued a sharp warning Friday against Arafat's carrying out his vow to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state. "If it happens, there will inevitably be consequences not just here but throughout the world," Mr. Clinton told an Israeli interviewer. "I mean that things will happen." Indeed, Washington...