Word: flaws
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...models still aren't perfect. One major flaw, agree critics and champions alike, is that they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
...population may have a genetic abnormality that causes them to metabolize many of the drugs on the market particularly slowly--meaning that chemicals hang around in the body longer and have more time to trigger toxic effects. Doctors hope that within a few years, patients with the flaw can be identified, and their doses can be appropriately adjusted...
...models still aren't perfect. One major flaw, agree critics and champions alike, is that they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
...Harvard Asians (not that anyone would, mind you), I might draw a comic strip that contained an Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...
...Perhaps befitting a treasury secretary whose main perceived flaw was his inexperience managing the markets, the timing wasn't ideal. After vowing on March 4, with the stock at an all-time high of $39, not to sell, he's reversed course with the aluminum giant down to $34 - about what it was when he was nominated for the post Dec. 20. But the ultimate decision was, of course, a political one, and its goal was to boost the image of a highly touted FOG (friend of Greenspan) who's gotten off to a rocky start...