Word: developed
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...students who have taken advantage of the dual submission policy cite its many merits. They include less time spent at the computer, increased ability to develop a given topic and exploring interdisciplinary approaches...
...educational institution, Harvard is dedicated to the development of ideas. Political repression, which seeks to stem the flow of ideas, directly contradicts this mission. Implied in protecting the development of ideas is protecting the people who develop those ideas. The intellectual community, therefore, becomes critically weak if it allows the silencing of dissent...
...assess the feasibility of using landfill gases to generate power in Brazil; to develop an electric-vehicle demonstration program for India; to improve energy efficiency in Egypt, according to a company brochure, by "encouraging Cairo's 2,500 bakeries to switch from filthy fuel oil to cleaner, more efficient natural gas." Nice, but should American taxpayers be paying...
...sources of cells, however, were not human beings in a legal sense. The Johns Hopkins researchers took theirs from fetuses that had been aborted early in pregnancy. The Wisconsin group used blastocysts, clusters of about 140 cells that develop within a week after fertilization. (They were donated by couples who had extra blastocysts left over from in-vitro fertilization.) The scientists, however, were hardly indifferent to ethical concerns. At Johns Hopkins, for example, it took nearly four years of testimony in front of scientific and ethical review panels before the work could even begin. Says team leader John Gearhart...
...then they start to do just that, abandoning their unlimited promise in order to do something useful with their lives. Scientists have long believed, however, that embryonic stem cells could be terrifically useful in their unspecialized state as well, not only as a source of information about how cells develop but also as a source of replacement for tissue damaged in a wide range of diseases...