Word: perfective
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...Democrats. Change, after all, can be a factor in the primaries as well as in the general election. And who has been the surprise of the election cycle so far? Barack Obama. He wants to "turn the page," as he says in every speech. Obama is just about the perfect candidate for a change election...
...perfect scent isn't worth anything, though, until it leaves the laboratory. To capture and translate the smell of a plant for consumers, IFF relies on a kind of camera for smell. The bell-shaped glass tool captures a living plant's "headspace": the air surrounding it. Using chromatography and mass spectrometry, scientists analyze the captured molecules, and computer programs help map out the plants' primary components. Most have between 60 and 120, with as many as 100 minor notes. Developers re-create the smell using natural or synthetic oils. To do that, IFF draws on a rotating...
...lost thousands of acres of its sweet-smelling sandalwood trees, for instance, over the past decades. If that trend continues, it will be even harder for fragrance-and-flavor companies to develop the next blockbuster smell or taste. Already, for every five to 10 samples perfumers dream up and perfect, just one generates a sale...
...interest of full disclosure, I’m one of the three. On the books, a concentration that uses scientific data and cultural studies to create a picture of what it means to be human sounds like a perfect model for an institution that a few months ago pledged $50 million to interdisciplinary studies. However, the $50 million initiative didn’t come through the normal channels of Faculty of Arts and Sciences funding. It came as a direct mandate from the Corporation. In a university that prides itself on its intellectual freedom and the talent of its faculty...
...brief aside, Summers compared girls and boys who earn a perfect score on their math SATs. The girls, he said, are more likely to score higher on the verbal portion of the test...