Word: developable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these classes would be nothing like indoctrination—and would give students a wide range of religions to choose to study. The idea is not to turn all Harvard students into Protestants again, but rather to make students more aware of humanity’s universal tendency to develop faith systems. Harvard should not exclude a religious field in the general education curriculum for fear of not including every religion or of being perceived in the media as promoting certain religious doctrines. Such logic keeps everyone in the dark...
...cause - of anorexia, or is it a consequence? Mondraty sees it like this: the personality traits and self-esteem problems mentioned earlier "are reasons that a girl might go on a diet," he says. Nearly all girls diet during their teenage years, but only about 1% of them develop anorexia. "What I'm guessing," Mondraty says, "is that when those with an underlying biological vulnerability lose a certain amount of weight, then something happens ... this [brain abnormality] clicks in. The significance of this is that it takes a bit of blame away from the family, away from the patient...
Whatever they've identified, both see merit in thinking about ways to treat the phenomenon. "I don't want to overstate it," says Mondraty, "but I guess in the future it'll be interesting to see if we can develop drugs that will actually reverse this abnormality." For some of his patients Mondraty already prescribes an atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine, to help control the intensity of their self-image delusions and curb their tendency to obsess about food and shape...
...doing the right thing now. I firmly believe that. The President firmly believes it. I think the world is better off with Saddam Hussein in jail, on trial, than in power. Right next door today in Iran you've got Mr. Ahmadinejad off and running trying to develop nuclear weapons. The only thing that would be more volatile is if you also had Saddam Hussein trying to develop nuclear weapons in Baghdad. Establishing a democratic government, getting rid of the old regime, closing down a major state sponsor of terror, shutting off Saddam Hussein's practice of making payments...
...revival of traditional opera after the Cultural Revolution ended, he returned to the music that his father loved. Today, Zhou’s 20-piece repertoire mainly consists of traditional opera.Since Zhou had a late start and was already working when he started practicing the jinghu, he did not develop the experience needed for admittance into a conservatory, where a jinghu program normally lasts eight years. “It’s just like how so many students are trying to get into Harvard,” Zhou said. “Only the best players who practice...