Word: absorbability
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Only cypress wood was used, probably for its ability to absorb water...
...there's no distinction between children and adults. Look at a Bruegel painting, and you see adults eating, drinking, groping, necking, together with their children. Literacy changed all that. Reading has to be learned; it separates the world of the child from that of the adult. But children can absorb images - from TV, say - just as easily as their elders. Postman worried that a postliterate culture would be one in which barriers that protected children from the perils and temptations of the outside world would be torn down...
...best absorb this diversity of experiences, she says she plans to refrain from joining any religious or ethnic student groups at Harvard...
...said the Faculty has traditionally been reluctant to change the current exam schedule because it thought it “better for students to have a long period of time to absorb and consider material...
...have still more reason to regret selling her ImClone stock. In June, ImClone reported that its drug Erbitux, in combination with chemotherapy, reduced tumor growth in the colon up to 55%, putting the controversial drug on track for FDA consideration. Erbitux targets cancer cells by blocking their ability to absorb growth factors they need to develop. Trials for treating other tumors, including those in the lung, head and neck, are under...