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Here is the crux of the difference between practitioners of antiaging medicine and more conventional colleagues: the former are using methods and making claims that the latter consider unsupported by scientific evidence. Most of those methods may be relatively harmless except to the bank accounts of clients; others...
...crux of Obama’s speech dealt with the hurricane, which hushed the crowd of over 800 African-American alumni gathered in front of Langdell Library...
...wrong, then, about its bet on going green? Exxon is a fuel company, while GE makes "devices," says Stuewer. And therein lies the crux of their differences. Exxon did toy with alternative-energy technologies--most notably with solar in the 1970s--but failed miserably. "Who was brought in to clean it up? Lee Raymond. He sold it all off," says Ed Ahnert, who retired last December as president of the ExxonMobil Foundation. "He learned you stick to what you know best...
...however, would still remain the odd force out. No experimental evidence has emerged to confirm the existence of its transmitting agent, the graviton. And though this hypothetical particle has been accommodated mathematically in unified theories, such models have been fatally flawed by anomalies that leave the theories meaningless. The crux of the problem: the electroweak and strong forces are quantum forces, whereas gravity is still defined only as a consequence of the curvature of space and time and thus cannot yet be explained in terms of quantum physics...
...Chung was quietly engineering a revolution. Revered by the staff as a member of the founding clan, he was able to gather information quickly and impose his will. He concluded that quality problems were the crux of the company's ills. Suh Byung Kee, Hyundai's president, recalls Chung bursting into his office five years ago and saying, "Quality is crucial to our survival. We have to get it right no matter what the cost...