Word: dependability
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...modern world, "demystified" and bereft of great books, knowledge and education (even in a moral sense) can only depend on the method of constant criticism and revision (a method, incidentally, to which Aristotle contributed the beginnings of analytic logic). --David Meskill '88, Second-year graduate student in the Department of History
...already in demand for sex selection, though doctors refuse to use it unless there is a clear medical reason. For now the technique is being employed to bring healthy children into the world. Whether those children prove to be smart or good looking will still have to depend, at least for the present, on the roll of the genetic dice...
...first alternative vaccines that researchers came up with were safe, all right; they just didn't work very well. Called subunit vaccines, they depend on noninfectious pieces of HIV to try to trigger immunity. Unfortunately, it now seems apparent that it takes a whole virus to produce a completely effective immune response...
...said that although "new countries can not depend on the developing world," the two country types should form a partnership...
...Wilson says he is "optimistic" that Clinton will address the job issue if he is re-elected. "He wants to be remembered as a President who alleviated human suffering and improved the life chances of the poor," says Wilson. But any further effort to create jobs will depend not only on whether Clinton wins a second term but also on whether the Democrats regain control of Congress from Gingrich and his henchmen. By then the President may have had time to read and digest all the lessons of Wilson's profound and disturbing new book...