Word: redirected
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Which way now? In this year of elections that could redirect history--in Israel, Russia, the U.S.--the first has been decided. Israelis have picked a Prime Minister in conservative 46-year-old Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. And the change in policies that his country will now pursue will have consequences affecting half the globe. Sometimes statesmen stumble blindly over an epochal crossroads they do not know is there. Others are given the chance to see the fork in the road ahead and decide deliberately which way to go. Folly, wrote historian Barbara Tuchman, is when leaders knowingly choose...
...Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...
Those who contructed the wanted poster parody should recognize that their statement--whatever it was--was made in a harmful manner. They should redirect their efforts though a more positive outlet...
Other genetics experts argue that the time has come to re-evaluate the approach taken by most gene therapists, and perhaps even to redirect their efforts. Last spring Dr. Harold Varmus, head of the National Institutes of Health, appointed an independent committee of scientists to look into how the NIH spends its gene-therapy research dollars (some $200 million a year) and whether the government is getting its money's worth. "I've been a bit concerned that we weren't fulfilling the promise of gene therapy in any obvious way at this point," Varmus explains. "My intuition tells...
Williams headed the ball off a Harvard corner kick from the right side, and B.U. goalie Bryan Murphy's attempt to redirect the shot over the net failed. Instead, the ball bounced off the crossbar and fell in front of the net waiting for a Harvard player to knock it in. Viders...