Word: labs
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...theses, to be well-informed and invulnerable to possible nitpicking by the opposition. If we have not done all the research, we are afrai d to take a strong position. Yet many of us continue to postpone the background reading on important current issues; music rehearsals, tutoring commitments, lab work, and midterms always take precedence. We want to excel at eve rything. Many of us who are not experts on politics don’t have time to become experts, and eventually give up on taking a stand altogether...
...Coyne, whose boundless energy is just as suited to his amazing studio work as to the flashlights he wields onstage behind Beck. But even though both performers are at the top of their respective games as musical scientists, their experiment at the Orpheum proved little about their strength as lab partners. While the music was great, the chemistry seemed lacking. It’s not hard to imagine that Beck, the moody perfectionist who is used to conducting his own cut-and-paste band, may have felt a bit jarred by the Lips’ blend of eclecticism. Coyne?...
...answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something’s got to give.” Pinker says he spends much less time in the lab these days. Whereas he used to maintain a lab supported by four graduate students and two grants, he now usually runs his lab with two graduate students and a single grant...
That doesn't mean the deal was government to government. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denies that his regime supplied Pyongyang's enrichment program. But in 1998 Washington slapped sanctions on the lab of Abdul Qadir Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's Bomb. As head of the nation's nuclear program, he made the Ghauri as a carbon copy of North Korea's Nodong missile, say U.S. officials. Khan is believed to have established front companies and smuggling operations to gather and sell nuclear gear and blueprints. Musharraf forced his resignation as the lab's leader 18 months...
...only specialists should interpret, he believes a responsibly selected battery of tests could help patients more than it harms them. And the risks that so upset his colleagues? "There's probably a greater downside to ordering a total body scan or a lung scan than ordering a panel of lab tests for yourself." Whatever the truth may be, consumers seem determined to find out for themselves. --With reporting by Wendy Malloy Fleming/Tampa and Melissa Sattley/Austin