Word: developable
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...intuitive and it isn’t easy,” he said. But he said “regular faculty members don’t want to teach research and writing,” prompting the school to hire an additional corps of lecturers to help first-years develop these skills...
...that is responsible for central vision. The more serious, wet form occurs when abnormal blood vessels obscure vision. A study of more than 300 people with dry AMD published in last week's American Journal of Ophthalmology showed that those who were taking statins were half as likely to develop wet AMD. Taking aspirin--with or without a statin--worked almost as well...
...control and possibly beneficial to his cause: Iraq and the 9/11 commission have dominated the news and kept the President on the defensive. Another part has been tactical, intentional: Kerry's recent priorities have been fund raising (he brought in $13 million last week alone) and taking time to develop a careful strategy for the general-election campaign. "We're not going to allow George Bush or the press to dictate the pace of our campaign," an aide said. An advertising blitz will begin next week, and a series of substantive speeches has been launched. The last was on fiscal...
...Vittoria, southeast of Palermo, which is made from a mixture of the island's main grape Nera d'Avola and the strawberry-like Frappato. The seven-year-old wine ($18) was bright, like a tart red cherry, and grounded with sunbaked plum flavors. Some of these older red wines develop delicious flavors like bittersweet chocolate and smoky...
...perfect copies of the women who donated the DNA. That, however, is not what Hwang and Moon wanted. "We will never try to produce cloned human beings," Hwang said. What they do want to produce--and, in fact, did--is embryonic stem cells, the biological blank slates that develop into all the body's tissues. Thanks to stem-cell technology, people could become their own tissue donors with pristine, unrejectable cells at the ready to repair damage done by, say, Alzheimer's disease or spinal-cord injury. Stem-cell research in the U.S. has been hamstrung since the Bush Administration...