Word: reaction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vaccines, like any drug, do carry some risk - but in healthy children, that risk is minute. A very small number of immunized children will have an allergic reaction to the vaccine, sometimes so severe it kills them. The trouble is that people are very bad at translating the practical danger from such miniscule statistical risks. Most people, given the choice to vaccinate their kids and run a tiny risk of an allergic reaction, or not to vaccinate their kids and - as in the case of polio - face a risk of contracting a crippling, sometimes lethal disease, can't figure...
...Jacobsen does move down Mass. Ave to MIT, he will join what Swager called the institute's "dream team" of reaction development researchers...
...have quite a team and now we have Eric Jacobsen, so we really have in reaction development a team of people unparalleled in the history of chemistry, in my view," Swager said in an interview. The team now includes organic chemists Stephen L. Buchwald, Gregory C. Fu, Rick L. Danheiser, Timothy F. Jamison, and Mohammad Movassaghi, and inorganic chemists Richard R. Schrock, Christopher C. Cummins, and Jonas Peters...
...skies, carrying out nonstop rescue and relief missions. Calderón and half his Cabinet then touched down in Villahermosa four times in a week, giving televised updates on everything from the use of satellite phones in shelters to the drop points of millions of bottles of water. "The reaction has been very impressive," said Helena Ranchal, regional head of the European Commission's emergency-relief fund...
...asked her about political balance. Most members of her party would agree that George W. Bush had taken the nation wildly off-kilter to the right, but when had the government been imbalanced to the left? "One would argue that welfare reform was to a great extent a reaction to going off too far in one direction," she said carefully, acknowledging the success of her husband's 1996 initiative - although, according to some historical accounts, she had reservations about it at the time. But she quickly moved back to the Bush presidency. "You don't usually talk about political philosophy...