Word: developable
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...Bush's Numbers The essay by Patricia Marx, "Check Out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec. 19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. Tom Wright Burke, Virginia, U.S. Ramallah...
...compare [Sharon] with,” wrote James Bennett in a 2004 New York Times Magazine profile. “He is Andrew Jackson, George Patton, Robert Moses.” Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who may very well become Kadima’s new leader, must develop a viable political vision for the party, complete with specifics for the future progression of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Sharon’s hawkish credentials made him uniquely capable of taking steps toward peace. Now, it is our hope that the Israeli leaders who may not have his stature, charisma...
...encourage early learning. Most experts agree that what matters most is not what toy the baby plays with but the ways in which you interact with your child. "There's no question that the experiences a child has in its first year are crucial for cognitive, emotional and physical development," says Lise Eliot, a neuroscientist at Chicago Medical School and author of What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. "But the good news is none of this costs any money. Babies prefer humans over anything inanimate...
With production workers earning $2 an hour, China is pressing its labor advantage, luring foreign automakers to both supply its domestic market and develop export programs. Almost all the big names?GM, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen?have joint ventures that assemble vehicles for the local market, with sales booming at a 22% average annual clip. Strong sales in China have cooled the impetus to export. So has the majors' ample capacity at plants overseas. And low wages don't make China a low-cost producer. The country has an inefficient supply chain, high component costs (many parts are slapped with import...
...whole field," says Christopher Thomas Scott, Stanford University bioethicist and author of the book Stem Cell Now. The bigger backlash is likely to be political, as the scandal gives further ammunition to those who view ESC research as inherently unethical. Still, other methods of ESC research will continue to develop across the world...