Word: actualizing
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...global estimate of yearly malaria cases by more than 100 million, according to a report released Thursday by the health agency. Almost all of that downward revision was attributable to updated surveillance numbers - mostly in Asia, and particularly in India - rather than a measurable reduction of actual malaria cases, agency staff said...
...time sifting through a few, imperfect clues - hunches, really - to piece together a fuller picture. But that picture often ends up being indistinct as well. The WHO says, for example, that the "confidence interval" of its new estimate - the numerical range within which scientists believe the actual malaria incidence most likely lies - is 189 million cases to 327 million cases per year...
...find it sickening that a man who has made a "career" out of killing animals, preserving their remains and calling it art is receiving so much attention from the media. This self-obsessed man confesses that his work is all "a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas." His work is not art, and we should not be worshiping a man whose only motivation seems to be to getting attention and money by provoking controversy. Mat Beckwith, Villars, Switzerland
...Both candidates were asked to react to the speech by McCain's vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, at the Republican National Convention, in which she seemed to belittle Obama's history of community service. ("A small-town mayor is sort of like community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities," she said to cheering delegates in St. Paul, Minn.) McCain said Palin was responding to criticism of her experience before becoming governor of Alaska and that "mayors have the toughest job, I think, in America." He also added, "Of course, I respect people who serve their community. And Senator Obama...
...based in Alexandria, Va., who delivered some of the most accurate estimates of the cost of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s. The S&L experience is instructive: the cost estimates started low (Ely's first guess was $25 billion), then eventually grew to $500 billion. The actual price tag, as calculated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) long after the fact: $123.8 billion, or about 2% of annual GDP during the bailout years. That's equivalent to $286 billion today...