Word: developable
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...Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity consumption. "The government is just letting the venture-capital market rip in this field," says Tam. "It's exactly what needs to happen to develop new technologies and new jobs in China. I think in a lot of ways this is our future...
...against prostate cancer (as well as other cancers), but the data were conflicting. In a trial involving 29,000 Finnish subjects in which researchers tested whether vitamin E could reduce lung cancer in smokers, those taking the supplements did not enjoy a lower rate of lung cancer but did develop 34% fewer cases of prostate cancer compared to controls. In the same study, subjects taking supplements that contained a form of selenium also showed a 63% lower risk of developing prostate cancer. But a separate trial of 7,000 heart patients found that vitamin E provided no additional protection against...
...able to advocate and implement projects that attempt to solve problems that we experienced.” “If we don’t do it, who else would?” he adds. The microbial fuel cell technology Lebônê is using was developed by Peter Girguis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, but the Lebônê team members are some of the first to take it to the field. “They’ve done 99.9 percent of it,” Edwards says. “The Idea...
...subject with “real-world” applicability is strong. Yet English—and the other humanities—are valuable courses of study, along with more “practical” majors like economics or chemistry, but only if departments are willing to develop their curriculum to suit the times. Harvard’s new English program allows for much greater flexibility of study and can incorporate a wider variety of interests.English is no longer a field whose scope can be limited to Great Britain and North America. Literature written in English is truly...
...government to have access to the mental health records. In Jaffee v. Redmond, the Supreme Court found that was true for the people in the US. But I think it is a fair question of whether that would be true for the detainees. The treating physicians do not really develop true psychotherapist-patient relationships - they do not use their real names; most do their counseling with guards present; and there is no significant possibility they will join the US population after their release. I submit MCRE 513 is not appropriate as a policy matter for the detainees...