Word: developable
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Here's where things get tricky. A closer look at the findings shows that women who have had a benign breast ailment, who score high on the so-called Gail model of breast-cancer risks or whose mother or sister had breast cancer are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer when taking estrogen supplements. In addition, all study participants, regardless of their breast-cancer risk, were more likely to have suspicious-looking mammograms that required biopsies to make sure that nothing was wrong...
...engineered the formation of the only non-LDP government in Japan's postwar history (though it crumbled in less than a year). In 1993, he wrote Blueprint for a New Japan, a book espousing the "normal nation" theory?now very much in vogue?asserting that Japan needs to develop the political, military and diplomatic power commensurate with its economic might in order to become a global leader...
...Some of them are very ill-prepared to enter this big world and then try to negotiate interpersonal relationships with very, very diverse groups of people,” says Donna M. San Antonio, a lecturer at the GSE. “They haven’t developed a sense of the world.” San Antonio recalls one 15-year-old homeschooled student who hiked with her on a month-long outdoor program she led with a group of seven other teenagers.She says the boy had trouble reconciling new viewpoints with the values he had been taught...
...years that followed, I would have to develop a more nuanced view of America. What do I make of it, then, after living there for more than a decade? A few years ago, I taught a composition class at a college in Iowa. Among my students were an immigrant from Guatemala, an Indian who grew up in London, a Japanese-American out of North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes...
...European Union. In the past centuries, those nations talked most about their sovereignty. Now, today, the common interest is more important than each individual nation's sovereignty. Tibet is a landlocked country, a large area, small population, very, very backward. We Tibetans want modernization. Therefore, in order to develop Tibet materially as a modern nation, Tibet must remain within the People's Republic of China. Provided Chinese give us a full guarantee of preservation of Tibetan culture, Tibetan environment, Tibetan spirituality, then it is of mutual benefit. [Besides] foreign affairs [and] defense [are] all the things which Tibetans can manage...