Word: harders
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Each new adult-stem-cell breakthrough makes the research easier by offering scientists more options, but advances in genetics make the issue of reproduction harder. Couples can screen out embryos for cystic fibrosis and cancer risk. Should they also be allowed to screen for blond, for smart, for straight or gay? We are on a road toward reproduction that doesn't require eggs and sperm at all. This is a moral wilderness, full of hope and traps. I don't expect aspiring parents to bring order to it when all they want is to survive the journey and make...
...added, “harder password combinations are something that human beings as a race should pursue...
...effort was sloppier. But this time, it was rewarded with a victory. “We kind of got away with one,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “I felt we played better against [Boston College] in the loss, we just played harder for longer in that game. [This time] we kind of came out, and I don’t know if it was an emotional letdown from Monday night’s game in the beginning, but we didn’t really come out getting after them and we sat back...
...curb price rises, she cut public spending at a time when rising , unemployment and the consequent increase in welfare expenditures would normally push it up. The money supply was throttled and interest rates were allowed to soar, forcing up the value of the pound and making British goods harder to sell on world markets. The strategy cooled inflation by cheapening imports and killing off demand generally, although it also threw a record number of British companies into bankruptcy and millions of workers out of jobs. Since June 1979, when the downturn began, industrial production has slumped 11.6% (vs. an average...
...racing devotees like Wong are harder to find these days. All four racing nights a week, the 54-year-old taxi driver parks himself in the back row of the Canidrome with a racing guide and a pack of cigarettes. "Dog racing is my passion," he says. "That's why I still come here." Out on the track, the dogs are chasing the rabbit, into an uncertain future...