Word: development
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...said their client and Harris did not possess anthrax but were instead carrying anthrax vaccine and were testing a device that would neutralize bacterial toxins in the human body, exactly the kind of gadget a country on the verge of war with anthrax-oversupplied Iraq would be happy to develop. One of Leavitt's lawyers charged that the FBI's informant, from whom Harris and Leavitt would have bought the bacteria-neutralizing device, was a scam artist with two convictions for extortion. On Saturday the FBI said that the anthrax found was a nonlethal form used in animal vaccine. Possession...
...stuck," says Cuban. "The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Harvard's Martha Stone Wiske suggests that schools purchase "a rolling cart of 10 or 15 laptops," rather than one for every student, and offer them to different classes when teachers develop lessons that can incorporate the machines. That way, Wiske says, schools can both save cash and maximize the effectiveness of laptops--by making the computers subordinate to what the computers are used to teach...
...important that we look at what [booksare] out there and what's been successful in thepast to see how children develop," Grossman said...
...indulgences college allows. And this indulgence can be seen in most aspects of college life. College students are selfish, caught up in their lives and usually their lives only, because they can be; our activities (even our altruistic ones) primarily serve us: they help us grow and develop our conceptions of the good life. And they don't matter too much in the grand scheme of things. Students are expected to make mistakes, and we can change our minds (our concentrations, our plans, our careers, etc.) when we wish...
...point he made clear in the opening moments of his talk. Equally striking, no one on the panel tried to minimize the potential danger of the new avian virus. Far from it. In a vote the FDA had not even requested, the committee unanimously agreed to move ahead to develop a vaccine against H5, even take it through clinical trials...