Word: predictabilities
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...country could have been five years after the day when we were all one. Dorian de Wind Austin, Texas, U.S. "The nation that fell to earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that, if the U.S. is to remain politically and economically strong, it must focus on more than fighting global terrorism. My only disappointment with Ferguson's article was in his dismissal of the problem...
What may ultimately erode Chávez's stature are exactly the things that he has skillfully used to boost it. As the price of oil begins to fall, critics predict Chávez's radical influence will too. Some analysts believe that Mexico's leftist candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, narrowly lost the recent presidential race in large part because his conservative opponent painted him as a Chávez clone. The same thing happened a month earlier in presidential elections in Peru...
...house call is making a comeback. Not a decade ago, doctor visits to the home were declared a "vanishing practice" in the New England Journal of Medicine. Now experts predict that as time-strapped baby boomers age--and their parents survive to be superelderly--the demand for doctors who are as comfortable examining patients in the bedroom as in the office will soar. Medicare data show a 37% surge to more than 2 million home visits by physicians from 1995 to 2005. That is partly because Medicare changed the rules for reimbursement in 1998, making house calls an attractive model...
...Nation That Fell To Earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that if the U.S. is to remain politically and economically strong, it must focus on more than fighting global terrorism. My only disappointment with Ferguson's article was in his dismissal of the problem of climate change. Global warming has the potential to reshape the geopolitical landscape and cannot be ignored...
...thing with basic research is that it’s impossible to predict whether there will be applications,†Szostak said. “I studied telomeres just to find something interesting about how cells work. At that time we had no idea that it would have any significance...