Word: comprehendingly
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...late 1990s, Zackie Achmat discovered a new mortal enemy. He was diagnosed HIV-positive, and found himself among the millions of similarly afflicted South Africans looking to their new government to help them stay alive. But their government failed to comprehend the scale of the crisis and was paralyzed by denial - a denial typified by President Thabo Mbeki's extended flirtation with a discredited group of "dissident" scientists who deny a link between AIDS and HIV infection...
...bright, motivated students. Instead of being saddled with Harvard’s “laboratory geniuses,” they might instead peruse the online lectures of other colleges, digest the notes of the “classroom geniuses,” and efficiently retain and comprehend information. In the short term, this form of information exchange will allow for yet another resource to supplement where the Harvard experience lacks...
...Fanglin mourns its dead, residents are coping with grief and struggling to comprehend the official spin. A woman surnamed Feng sits on a low, wooden bench cradling the body of her 11-year-old son. All she knows is that he had been making firecrackers at the school for three years. Perhaps both versions are correct: students were assembling explosives and a deranged man ignited them. But mostly there is skepticism. And sadness. Zhu's account, concludes Zhang Weifang, is "completely untrue." But even the truth wouldn't bring back her young sister...
Those who advocate human cloning seem to ignore the inherent wastefulness and disregard of human dignity that the process involves. I fail to comprehend the scientist who explains his work as a duty to help people who want to complete their life cycle by reproducing. Rather, the driving force behind scientists' efforts to clone is the commercial opportunity that feeds on the hopes of the pro-cloning people. I recommend that all involved have a good read of Brave New World and rethink their enthusiasm about human cloning. SABINA STILLER Oosterbeek, the Netherlands...
...clubs meet, the ones that still bother to meet, anyway; on the cell phones of the flat-busted, way-cool crowd, which stopped day trading months ago; and in the hallways of mutual-fund companies where hotshots are trying to make sense of something they were never programmed to comprehend. So this is a bear market, they sigh...