Word: imperfections
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...inventions that could end the polygraph's long, imperfect run are not yet ready for wide use. Some of them, however, are getting tantalizingly close...
...tests change my view of myself? Not really. I'll still put my check in the Latino box, imperfect as it is. If the process proved anything, it's that we're all a messy amalgam of centuries of mixing and migration. True identity, it seems, resides not in our genes but in our mind...
...could end up on more dangerous, less effective medications than you would otherwise. It might be, for example, better to give you that antibiotic and treat the yeast infection later than to give another drug and burn out your kidneys. Medicine is full of delicate choices between imperfect alternatives. Bottom line: go over your allergy list carefully with any nurse or doctor who takes it. Ask to see it when you check into the hospital and correct it if it's wrong...
...skin? Check-during adolescence my forehead was practically a member of OPEC. Enlarged pores? You bet-I've named some of them after lunar craters. Of course, I hadn't realized large pores were a bad thing. Now I'm paying $150 for professionals to tell me just how imperfect...
...past, Americans believed that the needs and concerns of our citizens would be addressed by the federal government —the president, Congress, or the courts. Though the solutions provided were often imperfect or short-term, Washington still managed to address issues of poverty, civil rights, the economy, the environment, education, and healthcare...