Word: developing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...However, short stories seem to translate well to film, sometimes becoming something even better than the original work. Where a novel must be condensed, short stories must be expanded, gaining a more complex plot, more characters and more detail. Also, most short stories develop an overarching theme rather than character, so the film version can spend more time on the development of these characters...
...This is a critical period in the transition of China to develop their higher education institutions," Vogel added...
...killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice carrying a defective form of PLB; in that experiment, the offspring produced by mating those mice with the mice bred to develop heart failure had a normal life span with no side effects, the researchers said. While there's no evidence yet of the gene...
...create elaborate personae based on three-line ".plan" files. I conjecture wild theories based on the geographic information garnered from "ph." In my fictional world, login information from "last" becomes nothing less than a complete roadmap of someone's daily schedule. And slowly, these 4-8 character user names develop personalities and plots...