Word: depends
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...that they wouldn't be treated like a developing country," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But if you don't want to be treated that way, you shouldn't beg for money. So this time, Primakov provided an example of how to deal with someone on whom you depend...
Many people in rural America, just getting by, still depend on hunting for meat to fill the freezer. But mostly the country buys its meat in cling-wrap packages at Safeway and Winn-Dixie. "We've lost our connection to the land and the outside world," says Jerry DeBin, Alabama's coordinator of conservation education. "Most people don't even notice which way the wind is blowing today. The squirrel or deer may be eating more today because a change in the weather is coming, but we don't pay attention to these things anymore...
...rather persistent. Would you be interested in getting to know him as a friend? While this may prove to be impossible given your past history, you should think about it in the way you let him down. But a large part of whether or not you become friends will depend on what you do after you establish that you are not interested in a relationship. And if you do it yourself (instead of involving your friends), you have a lot more control over what happens next...
...pushing the research forward in a timely fashion requires the sort of support only the government can provide. "I'm convinced that there will be therapies based on these cells in my lifetime," says Wisconsin's Thomson. "But when that occurs will depend heavily on whether there is public involvement." Given the chances of overturning the funding ban in today's political climate, it is more likely to be later than earlier...
...story is not anexplanation for humanity's existence or diagrammeddirections on how to live virtuously: Saramago isnot constructing a sermon on the merits ofobservant, moral living and rational governments.Rather, at the heart of the novel lies a deeplydisturbing hunch that perhaps, in the end, life isblind. We depend on life having a purpose, adirection. The truly disturbing question Saramagoposes is, what if life really means nothing? Thisquestion is not a new one, but it never ceases toprofoundly affect...