Word: gaps
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...fighting a cold, all from a few blood and tissue samples. But they still cannot definitively determine a person's age. The existing tests can come close, probably to within two years, but that's the best that current methods can do. And two years is exactly the age gap in question with the Chinese female gymnasts...
...fuse in a chronological order, so scans revealing how far along this process has come could provide more information about age. The skull can also be helpful. Babies are born with an unfused cranium and, as children grow up, a series of sutures come together to seal the gap. In some, however, certain sutures remain open through adulthood, making this an important but hardly conclusive test...
...Howard Dean's anger about the war in Iraq was hitting home with voters. And then, in the general election, Kerry kept repeating the word strength rather than demonstrating it. Clearly, Obama's consultants have given him similar advice, that he was on the short end of a passion gap - that it was time for emo. A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil...
...prospecting for gold in California. Ratkovic, the tourism professor, says Montenegro's government needs to put a brake on the "construction frenzy" of apartments and houses, and should instead provide more incentives for hotel developments that generate more long-term revenue. The country still suffers from a yawning income gap between rich and poor, and closing it is going to take more than a few luxury "oases" like Porto Montenegro, says Mirjana Kuljak, an economics professor at the University of Montenegro...
...sure that what I was exposed to was all that different from what Bill Clinton was exposed to. He's squarely a baby boomer. I'm sure that what I was exposed to was different from what John McCain was exposed to, because there's a much bigger gap of years there. But you know, the truth is that my education was a pretty standard liberal-arts education. So I was exposed to thinkers on the left. At the same time, I was reading Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, and I was growing up when Ronald Reagan was ascendant...