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...This built-in constituency is both a blessing and a burden. Alumnae don’t fit into the puzzle of the new Radcliffe, and yet the Institute must reconcile the vestiges of its collegiate past with its emerging identity...
...present, the Institute is bound to their built-in alumnae constituency—and their pocketbooks...
Multiple strains would not be surprising. This bug's genetic code is based on RNA, a single-stranded molecule very similar to DNA. Unlike DNA, however, RNA has no built-in proofreading mechanism to fix mistakes in the replication process. Most of these don't amount to anything, but every once in a while an error may make the microbe more infectious. Beyond that, says Dr. Robert Webster, chief of virology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., "when a virus comes across to a new host, what does a virus do? It varies like crazy...
...answer, in all likelihood, is no. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, the Founding Fathers explicitly sought to mitigate the risk of foreign engagements. Consequently, the structure of the U.S. government has a built-in check on imperial-minded leaders. As The Economist noted last June, “In a democracy as open and cacophonous as America’s, and with a constitution expressly designed to thwart decisive action by any single branch of government, it is hard to persuade a majority to support costly and risky international activism...
...things rolling in 1999 with its Wi-Fi system, known as AirPort, and in January unveiled a speedier upgrade called AirPort Extreme. Last month, in a bid to boost demand for laptops (and Intel processor chips), Intel released Centrino, a mobile technology that features a new microchip and a built-in Wi-Fi receiver...