Word: developable
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...enough that they suffer from something called dry-eye syndrome. Their eyes become dry and itchy or, at the other extreme, produce excessive quantities of tears. Their vision may get blurry, or they may find they can't leave their contacts in for very long. In severe cases, sufferers develop infections that can lead to blindness...
...exposed as children to fewer microbes. A new study of 400 Australians supports this so-called hygiene hypothesis. Researchers report that test subjects who had the greatest number of younger siblings and who were separated in age from them by less than six years were the least likely to develop MS. Apparently, all the infections they caught from the younger kids helped train their immune system not to attack their own nerves, which is what happens with...
Similarly, Harren Jhoti left pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome (now GSK) in 1999 when he realized that his unconventional idea of how to find new drugs to attack disease-causing proteins might never be realized unless he pursued it himself. He founded Astex, based in Cambridge, England, so he could develop his own flexible approach to molecular research. He calls it "fragment based," because rather than throwing an entire proposed drug molecule at the target protein, he throws just pieces at a time...
...late October, blood-equipment maker Haemonetics Corp., of Braintree, Mass., invested $5 million in Arryx to help develop a machine that would remove a blood donor's platelets, used for clotting. Under the deal, Haemonetics has agreed to make payments of $7.3 million and $5 million when Arryx hits predetermined development breakthroughs...
...seems to want not only to strengthen the Party's control over the state but to improve its thinking. Two weeks ago, he launched a nationwide campaign called "Develop and Maintain the Advanced Nature of Party Members." All 68 million rank-and-file Party members will spend the next 18 months "finding problems in their thought, work and behavior" and writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build...