Word: fewer
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...software can target tumors accurately within 0.5 mm, preserving more healthy tissue than other techniques, with fewer side effects. The precision stems from software that incorporates two perspectives of the tumor and combines them, much the way human eyes work binocularly. It then guides the robot to fire the radiation beam on target...
...Health-care professionals are trying to raise global awareness of the threat. In Cambodia, for example, more funding goes to controlling avian flu, a disease that affects far fewer people but has a higher fear factor worldwide. Health organizations such as the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are stressing the link between climate change and disease, hoping to get more money to fight mosquito-borne illnesses. "This is a critical moment," says Dr. Maria Neira, director of the WHO's program on public health and the environment. "If the public pressure is maintained, the politicians will...
...While the insights you reported are astounding, science is ultimately unable to address the nature of morality with any degree of certainty. For scientists to pin our hope on the possibility that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind" is merely blowing in the wind. Better that scientists explore the vast realm of unanswered questions while staying within scientific parameters. Although they accurately describe the mysterious condition of the "planet's most noble creatures," they have not moved one iota beyond the ancient biblical description of beings made in the image of God. Al Hoksbergen, Spring...
...ended the article with the hope that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct...
...four or more kids increased from 7% in 1991-96 to 11% in 1998-2004. Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, speculates, "For most people, two is enough because there are so many other competing ways to spend your time and money. People prefer to have fewer kids and invest more in them. My guess is the wealthy are having more because they enjoy children, and they have the time and resources to raise them well. They don't have to make those trade-offs...