Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thrilled to be in the Ivy League," she said. "It's not for everyone, but I believe in the philosophy of the league. It's a perfect fit...
...than those who go for brisk walks or otherwise exercise outside the home. Members of the latter group were found to be more likely to skip their regimen in bad weather or if they got delayed until after dark. Those with treadmills and such at home could more easily fit exercise into fast-changing family schedules, even as they watched over children...
...risk for a particular disease and which proteins and enzymes your body lacks. There will be no more wasteful trial and error, with costly pills winding up in the trash because they produced unwelcome reactions or didn't work for you. Instead you'll get customized prescriptions, created to "fit" on the very first try, like a Savile Row suit...
...genomics may be new, but not the economics. When you take your gene card to the pharmacy in 2025 for flu pills, bring a credit card too. Made-to-fit drugs won't be cheap. Some of us may have to make do with two aspirins and all the liquids we can drink...
What's missing from the debate is an understanding of the changing relationship between humanity and nature. For it is how humans fit into the natural world that will settle whether Malthus was right or wrong. He was wrong in 1798. But if he had been writing 10,000 years earlier, before agriculture, he would have been right. And were his book being published today, on the brink of the third millennium, he would be more right than wrong. Let me explain...