Word: actualizations
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...Researchers have now identified the outer protein coat of the virus, a necessary step in developing a vaccine. But an actual vaccine remains a distant prospect...
...that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood fast, explaining that they had decided against a scan of the entire bowel after the discovery of the first polyp because it was in fact merely a "pseudopolyp," more an inflammation than an actual growth. In following the course they did, insisted Dr. Edward Cattau, chief of gastroenterology at the naval hospital, the doctors were adhering to the screening guidelines established by the American Cancer Society...
...important to be left to the young." By which he means that the existence of nuclear weapons is to be approved of because those weapons have put the politicians and generals of a nation, who arrange and orchestrate wars, at equal risk with the young people who do the actual fighting. Science has thus served as an equalizer between leaders and troops: "The young people who go around yelling 'Get rid of the Bomb!' ought to be careful, 'cause the politicians might put a bow and arrow in their hands and make the kids sally forth again, knowing that nothing...
...absence of actual post-graduate plans, a couple of my roommates and I plan to spend the summer writing a lucrative and trashy thriller. It is going to be—in the words of one of my collaborators—“like ‘Desperate Housewives’ meets The Da Vinci Code.” It will be set, of course, at Harvard...
...more-or-less normal. We may be, as a group, a little better-read and a little more socially awkward than college students elsewhere—but, pace popular conceptions of us, we aren’t really very remarkable. The disconnect between imagined Harvard and actual Harvard is uncomfortable even for those who know us best: my brother and my father, for instance, call me “Harvard” (as in, “Nice job, Harvard!”) only when I do something particularly stupid...