Word: developable
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Forceful Rebuttal. Beckerman's 1975 book, Two Cheers for the Affluent Society, has become one of the most forceful rebuttals of the doomsday forecasts. He argues that the doomsayers have not taken account of how the market system can motivate public and private enterprise to develop successful alternatives. As for population, says he, birth rates will fall dramatically as living standards rise, especially in Third World countries. Food shortages will fade as production techniques improve. Pollution can be controlled when it is recognized that the problem is not growth but a misallocation of resources. Says he: "Because...
...Colette Rasmussen of the Cook County, Ill., public health department: "Too often the disease is looked upon as a sickness all children once had, as a kind of joke." Unfortunately, measles is no laughing matter. While the overwhelming majority of victims recover in a week to ten days, some develop pneumonia or encephalitis. If the measles virus spreads to the brain, it can cause convulsions, coma and brain damage, and sometimes death...
...been available for 14 years, more high school and college age youngsters are now susceptible to rubeola than ever before. In the past, this group was largely untouched by measles, but lately it has been hard hit. Reason: many teenagers were not exposed in childhood and thus did not develop antibodies against measles. Warns Dr. James Cherry, professor of pediatrics at the University of California in Los Angeles: "What we now have, for the first time in history, is a whole herd of older people who are not immune. I think it is a problem that will increase in magnitude...
...work bodes well for the world's millions of diabetics. The insulin for their daily shots is for the most part extracted from cow and pig pancreases obtained from slaughterhouses. But some diabetics develop strong allergic reactions to animal insulin. Both for this reason and because of the increasing demand for the hormone, which the body needs to turn sugar into energy, drug companies seeking alternative sources have pinned some of their hopes on recombinant DNA technology. By inserting the human insulin gene into the DNA of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli, they could, in theory, endow...
Between the Lines seems to end in mid-arc. The bad guys have just taken over the Mainlinethe good guys, having spent most of the film in limbo, now find the resolve to leave, to develop the talents they have allowed to moulder. All the obstacles to career change vanish. So, even more miraculously, do the impediments to romance. A reluctant Laura accompanies the husband she has previously vowed to leave to his new job in New York. Following her lead, Abbie and Harry, suddenly reconciled, march out of a bar with their arms around each other, leaving poor...