Word: developable
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...Hispanic parents spend a higher percentage of their income on children's clothing than other ethnic groups do. That helps explain why Target has licensed characters from the Nickelodeon show Dora the Explorer (whose title character is Latina) and why Kmart has signed the Mexican pop singer Thalia to develop a line of clothing...
...perspective. And we do get caught up in their fates. Implicitly, Blitz seems to be asking but not quite answering this question: What's the point of all this? The ability to spell is a sign of neither virtue nor brains. It's just a skill some people develop and some don't, and the national spelling bee is, in its genteel way, rather like Survivor, a pseudo event engaging real emotions...
...north of the capital, Maputo, experts from an international public-private partnership will kick off a large-scale clinical trial - involving 2,000 children, ages 1 to 4 - to test a GlaxoSmithKline drug called RTS,S/ASO2A. It is the most advanced of the 80 malaria-vaccine candidates now in development, of which 16 are in clinical trials. In earlier tests, GSK's drug was found safe and able to generate an immune response in both adults and children. But malaria, which claims the life of at least one sub-Saharan African child every minute, is notoriously quick to develop drug...
...Brockovich firm's approach. They also point to studies showing that the rates of cancer and other disorders in Beverly Hills are no different from those in the greater Los Angeles basin and note furthermore that more than a third of Americans, no matter where they live, eventually develop cancer...
...wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union that cheap Russian ice vessels and their crews became available to tour operators, and Antarctic tourism could really begin to develop, with the 1990-91 season setting a then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights...