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Unemployment More Likely Among Cancer Survivors
/////////////////Peanut Flour May Ease Peanut Allergy
Researchers report promising results from an early study suggesting small amounts of peanut flour daily may ease peanut intolerance, but they warn against trying their technique at home.
WebMD Health News 2009
///////////////////////Dishevel (verb)
Pronunciation: [di-'shev-êl]
Definition: To disorder or tousle, especially hair or clothing.
Usage: This is one of those negated words without a positive correlate, e.g. "disgruntled," "unkempt," "nonchalant." If I am disheveled and tidy up, why am I not then "sheveled?" (Do kempt people make you gruntled or chalant?) In current American usage, "dishevel" takes the endings -ing and -ed without any changes to the stem; in British usage, the "l" is doubled: "dishevelled," "dishevelling."
///////////////////////////My old Dutch
Meaning
An affectionate term for wife.
//////////////////Six out of ten people worldwide use
mobile phones
KurzweilAI.net Mar. 3, 2009
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About 60 percent of the world's
population now uses mobile phones,
with approximately 4.1 billion
mobile-phone subscriptions annually,
according to a report just released
by the International
Telecommunications Union -- an
increase from about one billion
users in 2002. "There has been a
clear shift from fixed to mobile
cellular telephony,...
/////////////////"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
– Aldous Huxley
//////////////////The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:00 AM PST
~ Martin Luther King Jr
///////////////////Rotavirus gastroenteritis places high demands on European health care systems, accounting for 56.2% of hospitalizations and 32.8% of emergency department visits because of community-acquired acute gastroenteritis in children aged <5 years. Most community-acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis occurs in children aged <2 years, and a high proportion occurs in infants aged <6 months. Cases were also observed among very young infants <2 months of age. Rotavirus vaccination is expected to have a major impact in reducing morbidity and the pressure on hospital services in Europe.
////////////////////////The overall incidence of Kawasaki disease was 69 in 100000 children <5 years of age between 2003 and 2006 in Taiwan, comparable with the incidence of 66 in 100000 children between 1996 and 2002. Taiwan has the third highest incidence of Kawasaki disease in the world, after Japan and Korea. In Taiwan, it occurs more frequently during the summer.
/////////////////This study shows that breastfeeding reduced the risk of sudden infant death syndrome by ~50% at all ages throughout infancy. We recommend including the advice to breastfeed through 6 months of age in sudden infant death syndrome risk-reduction messages.
///////////////////////////. Infantile hemangiomas are associated with the development of retinopathy of prematurity in infants weighing ≤1250 g. The biological significance of this association may yield clues to the management of retinopathy of prematurity.
//////////////////////Studying Stuttering
March 4, 2009 | Cornelius W. Van Niel, MD
In a prospective community-based study, the cumulative incidence of stuttering at age 3 years was 8.5%.
////////////////Assiduous (adjective)
Pronunciation: [ê-'sid-ju-wês]
Definition: Persistently diligent and attentive at some activity; ardent.
Usage: This word implies a stronger application of oneself to a job or task than does "diligent." It might also imply applying oneself overdiligently. "John was assiduous in pleasing his mother-in-law." The adverb, "assiduously," is probably used more than the adjective. The noun is "assiduity."
//////////////////////////Charles Moore, a ship captain, discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a floating island of plastic trash that's twice the size of Texas. He tours us through this shocking site, details its effects on wildlife and water, and talks about what we can do to at least keep the Garbage Patch from growing.
/////////////////Contemn (verb)
Pronunciation: [kên-'tem]
Definition: To view with contempt; despise.
Usage: An endangered verb used far less widely than the noun, contempt, derived from it.
Suggested Usage: Give "hate" and "despise" a rest and try "I contemn everything he stands for," carefully articulating the "t". "Mary contemns the way her neighbors reduplicate her garden in theirs."
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French contempner "despise", from Latin contemnere "to despise": com- + tem(p)nere.
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