91.   In experiments at the Joslin, Weir is attempting to find ways to improve the lives of patients by giving them transplants of healthy insulin-producing cells.

92.   In places like San Jose and Westminster, Calif., Houston and Boston, Vietnamese shops and restaurants are reviving entire neighborhoods, improving economic life.

93.   In some countries, American troops have improved the lives of residents by fixing their roads or bridges.

94.   In this pressure-cooker situation, many lives are unexpectedly improved.

95.   Indeed, Chavez retains widespread support, with millions of poor Venezuelans grateful for a government that deposed the old order while promising reforms to improve their lives.

96.   In stark contrast to the rulers of Angola and Congo, they created an African nation devoted to improving the lives of its people.

97.   In the process, both the government and the ruling party have improved the lives of many thousands of people in Chalco and other slum communities of Mexico state.

98.   Is it because of claims that he has improved the lives of the average American family by driving down inflation and unemployment and boosting economic growth?

99.   International companies, for another example, could be persuaded to conduct hands-on projects in their factories that could help workers improve their lives.

100.   It was given to him by the remarkable advances technology has made toward improving the life of the disabled.