Word: literalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...technique, which it plans to apply to seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines. The Department of Health and Human Services last spring awarded a $97 million contract to Sanofi-Aventis, a Paris-based drug company, to develop avian-flu vaccines using human cells. The company is preparing a 20,000-liter bioreactor tank in the U.S. to brew test cultures. Jaap Goudsmit, chief scientific officer for Netherlands-based Crucell, which supplies cell-culture technology to Sanofi-Aventis, expects to test the first cell-based avian-flu vaccine as early as next spring...
...Before you put it into action, you have to charge the battery and fill up its tank with cleaning solution-a liter of water mixed with two ounces of specially designed concentrate from Clorox. Incidentally, the concentrate contains no bleach, nor does it contain anything that might make the floor sudsy. You have to use the special formula; anything else will void your Scooba warranty. The folks from iRobot say that the solution-three 32-oz bottles for $18 or five for $25-will be available online or where Roombas and Scoobas are sold. They also suggest that...
...Increase in gasoline prices announced by the Indonesian government last week, to 44? per liter, prompting widespread protests...
Make your own soft drinks with this $100 countertop soda fountain that can brew a liter of soda in about 30 seconds. Comes with a choice of 25 flavors and a replaceable CO2 canister that can carbonate 110 L of water...
...fact that it's now a net importer of crude oil?the currency is in free fall and the government is burning through its foreign exchange reserves, thanks to a longstanding and increasingly ruinous policy of providing subsidized fuel to consumers. Gasoline in Jakarta costs a mere 27? per liter; some economists worry that if the government continues to spend an estimated $1 billion a month on fuel subsidies, as it's currently doing, a rerun of the 1998 financial crisis isn't entirely out of the question. In the Philippines, the fallout from higher oil prices only deepens...