Word: model
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pauper to cutting-edge innovator. Today, Alimansyar teaches Japanese at the University of North Sumatra, and the school's rapidly growing Japanese-language program is filled with 500 students who are often lured by Japanese cars, electronics and animé. "People in Indonesia look at Japan as a role model," he says. "They want to know how Japan was able to rebuild itself from nothing into such an amazing country...
...while transplantation is “a very exciting application of stem cells,” it is not a solution for many diseases, as stem cell and regenerative biology professor Kevin Eggan said in a talk last night, titled “Using Stem Cells and Reprogramming to Model Neural Degeneration.” For example, he said it is difficult to imagine growing a new forebrain in the case of Alzheimer’s Disease, which is effectively what would need to be done to cure it. Stem cell research can be applied to better understand the biological...
...results from recounts and runoffs, but it’s clear that the Democrats will hold between 58 and 60 seats in next year’s Senate. Thus the need for Lieberman’s vote has become significantly less apparent. Traditional moderates across the aisle, in the model of Sens. Olympia J. Snowe or Susan M. Collins, might be looked to as swing votes instead of Lieberman. Occasionally courting these two socially liberal, fiscally conservative New England Republicans seems far preferable than having to pander to Lieberman just months after he traveled the country trying to torpedo...
...Corey was always kind of a role model for me coming in,” Luft says. “He was the person I always went to with questions like, ‘Corey, what do I want to do here? What do I need to do here in this type of coverage?’ That type of stuff...
...question of who was best equipped to handle international relations in a dangerous world. That they could be on the brink of becoming partners in that endeavor is the most remarkable evidence yet that Obama is serious about his declared intention to follow another Illinois President's model in assembling a "team of rivals" to run his government, in what could be a sharp contrast with the past 40 years of American Presidents. "I've been spending a lot of time reading Lincoln," Obama told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. "There is a wisdom there and a humility about...