Word: foolproof
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...amount of light reflected by the fluorescent DNA. It's painstaking work -- sorting a single batch takes the better part of a day -- but the results speak for themselves: Of 14 pregnancies produced so far for couples who wanted a girl, 13 fetuses were female. Not entirely foolproof, but pretty close...
...your children about sex and values is an obvious first step. Be sure to note that STDs do not discriminate: you can't tell if another person is infected by how "clean" or "nice" he or she is. Nor are condoms, which generally provide pretty good protection, entirely foolproof. So don't be afraid to let your teenagers get tested for chlamydia. You may not like the results, but at least a treatment is available...
Going smaller has some bigger risks, though. Locations such as museums are foolproof so long as there are class trips. But by becoming more commercial, IMAX will have to compete more directly with Hollywood. Industry ticket sales increased 3.7% last year, to 1.38 billion. But the number of films increased at nearly twice that rate, as did the number of screens. So the market is hardly bubbling. And IMAX faces some competition from big-screen rivals such as Iwerks and MegaSystems...
Discard your theories about talent, size, speed, strength or depth. Here's a hypothesis that tops 'em all...and it's foolproof...
...would be wrong to say so, and worse, one would be unfair to the stupendous work of Altman and her cast and crew. No play is so great that it is foolproof. If anything, mediocrity is more obvious when the potential exists for a brilliant night of theater. Angels in particular--with its large cast, its tricky, complex script, and its logistical nightmares of sound, stage and light effects--raises the stakes for success remarkably high. What we experience at the Loeb, then, is the transporting magic of talented dramatists giving the play, and the audience, everything they have. Those...