Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign trail is already moving through terrain pocked and cratered by the scandal. The early front runners are trying to define an acceptable zone of privacy, but they find themselves in a world in which the only rule is that there are no rules. Whether and how voters react to one's past may depend on how serious it was--a one-night stand or cartwheeling adulteries? a lot of pot or a little cocaine?--and just how long ago it was. And the process by which those episodes are dug up and publicized is now a free...
...exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort in the future...
...When a small electric charge is applied to a particular reservoir, the chloride ions react with the gold membrane and dissolve it, releasing the enclosed substance...
...have two children of our own and an adopted child, but I find it helpful to consider what might have happened in my own marriage if a copy of me had been made to overcome infertility. My wife and I met in high school. How would she react to a physical copy of the young man she fell in love with? How would any of us find living with ourselves? Surely the older clone--I, in this case--would believe that he understood how the copy should behave and so be even more likely than the average father to impose...
...moral I draw from this painful episode is this: Never postpone experiments that have clearly defined future benefits for fear of dangers that can't be quantified. Though it may sound at first uncaring, we can react rationally only to real (as opposed to hypothetical) risks. Yet for several years we postponed important experiments on the genetic basis of cancer, for example, because we took much too seriously spurious arguments that the genes at the root of human cancer might themselves be dangerous to work with...