Word: developable
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...perfect weight, doctors think that's highly unlikely. Similar hopes were raised a few years ago for leptin, a hormone that acts as an appetite suppressant. After years of trying, nobody has found a way to make it into a useful medication, largely because patients quickly develop a leptin tolerance...
After completing his formal schooling and finishing his time in the armed services, Hirschman put to work both his medical and his radio skills to develop what he calls his most rewarding achievement—a system for transmitting electrocardiograph readings via radio. It was the first on-scene emergency care system to transmit medical data by radio...
...simultaneously introduce reform and hold its ground against potential terrorists. That determination is evident in the agency's new top priorities: protecting the United States from terrorist attack and against foreign intelligence operations and espionage. "The FBI can't act as traffic cop any longer," Mueller said, "we must develop the capability to anticipate and prevent future attacks." That capability depends on upgrades in many areas, including training staff to perform more incisive analyses, hiring agents with needed language skills, developing more sophisticated intelligence gathering methods and empowering field agents to act more independently from headquarters. Mueller also wants...
...impatient, arrogant and, in the long watches of the night, almost pathetically vulnerable. Williams is also good--an entrancing smoothy you can well imagine Will succumbing to. Hilary Swank represents rationality--a smart, inexperienced cop who deeply admires Will and can't quite believe the case she begins to develop against...
...million penalty and make its analysts more independent, ending the New York attorney general's probe. The firm still faces lawsuits from investors. High-Stakes games H Microsoft is backing up its belief that video games are the wave of the future by pledging $2 billion to develop an online game network and the Xbox. Family Corrections H A judge ordered the return of a $1 billion stake in Gazprom that former managers sold to their relatives' firm for a mere $2.5 million. The state will now have a 55.6% share in Russia's biggest company...