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...Maybe, but as Gore himself has said, the political system is not linear. Today there is momentum on climate change in the U.S. that was unimaginable just a year ago. "It's hard to gauge just how quickly the momentum could gather," says Frances Beinecke, NRDC's president, who counts herself as hopeful. There's no time to wait - even if the beach looks inviting in Bali...
...standard for defining obesity - and a greater risk of future heart disease and heart disease-related death. According to the authors, it is the first study to conclusively link excess weight in childhood and health problems later on. What's more, the data showed that the correlation is linear and progressive: as kids' BMI increased, their risk of adult heart disease rose alongside it. "We anticipated finding a threshold, or a cut point at which the risk dramatically increased or remained stable, so when it worked out to be such a proportional increase we were very surprised," says co-author...
...confusion is born from the lack of cohesion of Transcendentalism, itself: As Gura points out at the very beginning of his book, no one Transcendentalist shared the same definition of Transcendentalism with any other. Although his effort to accurately portray each element of the movement forces him to abandon linear narrative, Gura’s careful attention to every detail and variation of thought within the movement gives his work its authority. His vibrant representation of the Transcendental thinkers beautifully characterizes both their philosophies and their personalities. Emerson, he explains, was “not so much imposing as magnetic...
That sort of pre-emptive analysis has been missing from the linear software programs still used by most companies, says Amar Gupta, an M.I.T. productivity expert. NuTech and such competitors as BiosGroup and Searchspace are counted among the pioneers of the next tech revolution. "This kind of software gives us the ability to analyze a lot of information a lot better," says Gupta. "Everybody has to be agile, and in order to be agile, you have to be able to pinpoint trends...
...Sandoz, as at most pharmaceutical companies in those days, new products came to market through a linear, three-step sequence. Researchers would seek out potential drugs. Development teams would test and refine them in hopes of winning regulatory approval. Finally, marketers would peddle the approved drugs to physicians. These steps were typically conducted in isolation, so developers would sometimes find out too late that a candidate drug had terrible side effects or could not be mass-produced economically. Or marketers would discover late in the process that there wasn't much demand for the new drug they would soon...