As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to inc... LOIS CAPPS The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic m... LOIS CAPPS I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy e... LOIS CAPPS What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable an... LOIS CAPPS Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first l... LOIS CAPPS We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, an... LOIS CAPPS With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty o... LOIS CAPPS In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. LOIS CAPPS Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school... LOIS CAPPS Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own ... LOIS CAPPS Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in v... LOIS CAPPS And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. LOIS CAPPS Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization. LOIS CAPPS I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel'... LOIS CAPPS National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance fo... LOIS CAPPS In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and ... LOIS CAPPS Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity a... LOIS CAPPS Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely cri... LOIS CAPPS This just looks like the oil and gas industry are shamelessly using the tragedy of Katrina and Rita ... LOIS CAPPS Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock. LOIS CAPPS All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging mo... LOIS CAPPS I am concerned about it with so many endangered species right in the Santa Barbara County area, LOIS CAPPS The problem is, the Endangered Species Act does need to be modernized, ... but the people in charge ... LOIS CAPPS I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive, LOIS CAPPS The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live, LOIS CAPPS Downtown is a great place to come for live music, and this season promises to generate even more ent... ASHLEY CAPPS Our goals have been fairly consistent - just striving to make it the best festival as we could. ASHLEY CAPPS It was always a music festival to us. ASHLEY CAPPS It's the fifth anniversary and we're really proud of that. We always had a long-term vision for this... ASHLEY CAPPS It took us a while to discover exactly what that right number was, but I think at this point we know... ASHLEY CAPPS I'll do whatever it takes to help the team win. I truly don't care (what my role is) as long as we h... AARON CAPPS It was a real good year; a great season. AARON CAPPS He has discontinued his affiliation with it (the Owl Club). He believes it is a mistake to be affili... LAURA CAPPS You do not need to go to Iraq to know that we don't have a policy worthy of the sacrifice of our men... LAURA CAPPS We're losing some good seniors this year, but we also have some good sophomores that are going to gr... AARON CAPPS The Delta is a very special place. There are so many good and wonderful things about the Delta. I th... CHARLES CAPPS would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature ... CHARLES CAPPS The Delta is a conservative place, ... District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have ma... CHARLES CAPPS No roommate. I had my own hotel room. MATT CAPPS It was a very disappointing game, frustrating and disappointing. It was the same exact scenario down... DONNA CAPPS [Terra] has been coming through for us all season long. We as a team did exactly what we did last Fr... DONNA CAPPS We've been decent on the road, so it doesn't bother the kids that much. I don't think it will be a b... DONNA CAPPS The fun part of this conference season is so many (teams) are capable of making a push for it. DONNA CAPPS You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job don... HAL CAPPS We really feel that Bo isn't going to see anything he hasn't seen already. Anything they bring proba... HAL CAPPS This is a huge game due to the simple fact that it is a conference game. Both teams are undefeated a... HAL CAPPS It's fourth down and you bow your necks, say a quick prayer and then you go. HAL CAPPS We feel that they are a physical type ball club. From what we have seen on tape they are going to li... HAL CAPPS They play well together and understand each other. HAL CAPPS The thing that really impressed me is how hard their backs run. They are extremely tough and give ev... HAL CAPPS Senator Kennedy joined Harvard's Owl club in 1954 before women were admitted to the campus and long ... LAURA CAPPS He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated. LAURA CAPPS To say we have to deal with enforcement first, we've tried that, we've done that for the last
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GEORGE LOIS All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication cours... GEORGE LOIS What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, o... LOIS GREENFIELD I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it ... GEORGE LOIS These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or ... GEORGE LOIS The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of streng... LOIS WYSE A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity i... LOIS WYSE Ask the American public if they want a wiretap and they'll say 'No.' If you ask them do they want a ... LOIS FREEH In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. LOIS LOWRY A truly great magazine cover surprises, even shocks, and connects in a nano-second. 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LOIS LOWRY There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do. LOIS LOWRY I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance. LOIS LOWRY Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing LOIS LOWRY Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certai... LOIS LOWRY Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids ... LOIS LOWRY So she's given marginal resources, and she multiplies it, ... She begs and borrows and depends on a ... LOIS FRANKEL Just because it doesn't smell doesn't mean it isn't spoiled. Potentially hazardous things like groun... LOIS ILLICK Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army b... LOIS LOWRY People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. 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These moments are beneath the threshold of perception. LOIS GREENFIELD It's hard to give up the being together with someone. LOIS LOWRY Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scient... GEORGE LOIS I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... LOIS LOWRY I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... LOIS LOWRY She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have... LOIS LOWRY Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. LOIS LOWRY