Word: modeling
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Together they created a "reference earth model"--a model of the earth that seismologists can use to measure seismic waves and other geophysical phenomena...
...whose programs include Harvard Model UN, Harvard National Model UN, the Harvard International Review, Harvard Program for International Education, Model Security Council and Inter-Collegiate Model UN, is comprised of over 350 members...
...environment that determines how these genes will express themselves. In another setting, for example, it is easy to imagine that Hamer might have become a high school dropout rather than a scientist. For while he grew up in an affluent household in Montclair, N.J., he was hardly a model child. "Today," he chuckles, "I probably would have been diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and put on Ritalin." In his senior year in high school, though, Hamer discovered organic chemistry and went from being an unruly adolescent to a first-rate student. What people are born with, Hamer says, are temperamental...
Does a good-looking messenger make the message clearer? ALEK WEK is the fashion industry's current darling, scoring the cover of Elle and MTV's model-of-the-year award. And now both the U.S. Committee for Refugees and aid organization World Vision have signed Wek up to wake people up to the plight of displaced families in Sudan, her war-torn homeland. She spent her 21st birthday appealing for help for a country where more civilians have died unnecessarily than in the conflicts in Somalia, the former Zaire and Bosnia combined. And while Wek may not be able...
...ignores the creativity and tenacity of the citizens of this unique community. Once a "one-industry, one-company town," Butte now has an economy that is balanced, a feat achieved by the residents. These same people have turned the largest environmental disaster of post-Industrial Revolution America into a model for local involvement in environmental cleanup. EVAN BARRETT, Executive Director Butte Local Development Corporation Butte, Mont...