Word: breakthroughs
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...This breakthrough case told the FDA that it may not be constitutional for the government to make patients’ decisions for them. The case takes a step to recognizing that people have a right to choose what medication they want to take. They have a right to weigh the potential risks and benefits of drugs for themselves, with the advice of independent analysis, and decide whether it’s worth it to them. The D.C. Circuit’s ruling is a victory for our rights and a victory for our health. We should applaud it, and tell...
...more sensitive Ferrell in a script that plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite: that should send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...
...when I fell,” Barrett said. “It’s so disappointing.” Despite the poor team performance, runners agreed that progress, however infinitesimal, was being made. One silver lining was the performance of Hafer. Continuing his solid season with a breakthrough personal-best performance, the junior led the Crimson with a time of 25:08 for the eight-kilometer course, placing No. 13 and earning Second-Team All-Conference accolades in the process. “I was hoping to be under 25:00 by the end of the season...
...submit a proposal to a core faculty consortium, although the faculty members making up the consortium have priority of access. “We expect that the Blue Gene system will enable new ways of thinking, generate completely new insights and enable ‘revolutionary’ or breakthrough science compared to the traditional ‘evolutionary’ science possible through use of existing platforms,” Sircar wrote. Funding for the system was provided by the DEAS. Other universities that use the Blue Gene Solution technology include MIT and Boston University, according to the supercomputer...
Mondraty and Sachdev, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales, saw the chance to make a small breakthrough in exploring why it is that the anorexic sees on her frame fat that isn't there. It's a puzzling, highly specific delusion: anorexic women can recognize normal weight in others and identify other anorexics as too thin, but something goes awry when they look at themselves...