Word: developable
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...nations, companies, and people to fairly negotiate and trade on the global markets. This is the only path out of poverty I can see for Africa, and it will be nearly impossible to achieve without the voices of concerned people in countries with the power to allow Africa to develop herself...
GOTTLIEB: It's progress to the extent that people realize there's no business in pirating and they're forced to develop legitimate business models. But file sharing is a red herring. It's file sharing along with CD burning that's in need of a solution...
People who are upbeat and resilient and have a range of interests and the capacity to develop interests. They'll do well in retirement, as they probably did well in their careers...
Savin-Williams opposes programs designed to change sexuality, but he has won admiration from some ex-gay proponents by writing that "sexuality develops gradually over the course of childhood." Gay identities also develop slowly. Even kids who publicly reveal same-sex attractions can be uncomfortable calling themselves gay; instead they say they are "polysexual" or "just attracted to the right person." Those vague labels sound like adolescent peregrinations that will eventually come around to "Yep, I'm gay." But Savin-Williams says many of the tomboys and flouncy guys we assume to be gay are in reality bisexual, incipiently transsexual...
...Exodus counseling had helped cure his porn addiction; Carrasco says that during high school, when he was Bible-club president, he routinely looked at gay Internet porn until sunrise. But he has never had a boyfriend or anything approaching a typical gay life. Carrasco says Exodus has helped him develop some heterosexual attractions, but I met very few at the conference who claimed to be completely straight. (At least two of the young men--one 21, the other 18--hooked up that week and still keep in touch...