Word: developable
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...once explained the theory of his research with an analogy from his past: “If your bombers are being shot down, you can either develop higher flying bombers or you can knock out the anti-aircraft guns and use the old bombers.” Knowles preferred the latter...
Sanes and Meister wrote that they hoped the finding would help shed light on how brain cells develop as well as how the brain identifies its sources of sensory information...
...perhaps the intuitive next step to laparoscopic surgery - which, while significantly less invasive than open surgery, still requires several tiny incisions through the abdominal wall. Cutting through abdominal muscle is not only painful, but can also cause complications: up to 5% of (or 50,000) surgery patients later develop hernias, Horgan estimates. The new technique requires cutting too, but generally just one incision through internal tissue - of the stomach, vagina or colon - which is far less sensitive and which heals more quickly than external wounds. "What we are saying now is how do we improve laparoscopic surgery...
...future, the closure of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger may not be all bad: in addition to allowing patrons to see a test case of “how the collections look side-by-side” at the smaller Sackler, it may also allow for more undergraduates to develop an interest in the art. “It gives us a good opportunity to expand our group beyond the ‘nights,’” Lessersohn says...
...researcher Krista D. Mattern told the Chronicle of Education that “admissions committees should be wary of using such information in the admissions-decisions process.” According to Harvard’s Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70, the College attempts to develop “as complete a picture of each [applicant] as possible” and considers in the admissions process multiple factors such as perseverance, drive, humor, and integrity. McGrath wrote in an e-mail that “‘fit’ is very much...