Word: developable
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...ninth-floor offices of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in developing countries build businesses, overlook Trinity Church in New York City's Financial District. Consider it a case of Wall Street crossing Hope Road. "It's a good metaphor," says Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen's founder. Some call it venture philanthropy, but Novogratz prefers the phrase "private equity for the poor." What that means is that a small company in India gets a $185,000 loan to make and sell affordable water filters. And that a Pakistani firm receives more than $260,000 in grants and loans...
...says. But coed schools do more harm than good, he decided, when they teach boys and girls as if their brains mature at the same time. "If you ask a child to do something not developmentally appropriate for him, he will, No. 1, fail. No. 2, he will develop an aversion to the subject," he says. "By age 12, you will have girls who don't like science and boys who don't like reading." And they won't ever go back, he says. "The reason women are underrepresented in computer science and engineering is not because they...
...appeal represents another bump in the road in Harvard’s lengthy quest to develop its choice parcel of riverfront land...
Even today, Buswell finds that teaching Harvard students is both mystifying and entertaining, saying that “if one can generalize at all, they develop these analytical tools about literature, and other disciplines they’re working...
Walsh noted that while the cell structure of al Qaeda currently makes it difficult for the group to launch the complex scientific research needed to develop nuclear weapons, the terror network is expanding—and there is a large amount of unsecured nuclear material in the world...