Word: vitalize
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...adopt some of the changes under way in Missoula, Mont., where a project called the Quality of Life's End is educating local doctors, lawyers, clergy members and students about what it means to die well. For example, both of Missoula's hospitals now treat pain as a fifth vital sign, ensuring that medical staff will take it seriously. Recently the project contacted Missoula's lawyers to begin teaching them to write better advance directives. And project volunteer Gary Stein incorporates end-of-life issues into the high school psychology course he teaches...
...Messemer recanted statements he had made at the December bail hearing about Lee's alleged lies, letters and contacts with Chinese officials - claims that had helped send Lee into solitary confinement. That reversal angered Judge Parker, who already had doubts about whether the sensitive material Lee downloaded was truly vital to national security...
With His Airness finally in retirement, the most important Jordan in the world of sport--or at least Harvard sports--is now Jordan Field, the $3.3 million artificially surfaced home of the Harvard field hockey team that was unveiled last year. How vital is it to the nationally ranked Crimson's ability to breeze past its competition...
When he arrived at the Orlando airport Governor Bush patiently walked to the microphones with one of those "tax families" that have become a staple prop used to explain how his tax plan helps real people. Bowing his head almost as in prayer, he read their vital statistics from the prepared briefing book. "Juan and Brenda Hector make $45,000, have two children," read the candidate to the profoundly uninterested press corps. Soon you could hear the clubs coming out of their cases. Nearly the second he'd finished giving the two-minute introduction to what in a perfect world...
...College Board, which administers the SAT, argues that the test still serves a vital purpose: it helps colleges cut through high school grade inflation. This year 40% of students who took the SAT reported having an A average in high school, up from...