Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsession with standardized tests as the measuring stick of academic capability is at an all-time high. Now, a considerable portion of adolescent life revolves around successfully surmounting these tests. Likewise, education is increasingly involved with making students capable of passing the specific tests required by their state or region's education department. This increasing emphasis on standardized testing has had a negative effect on many aspects of American education...
...Snyder announced in print that his lab had removed stemlike cells from mouse brains and had grown them in a culture. Snyder then teamed up with Dr. Jeff Macklis, a colleague at Harvard Medical School who had engineered a strain of mouse whose neurons died off in a tiny region of the cortex where cells were not known to regenerate. Snyder injected the stem cells into the mice. Like heat-seeking missiles, the cells rapidly sought out the injured part of the cortex and transformed themselves into healthy neurons. "That's the beauty of stem cells," says Snyder...
...Stability in our region is the pre-requisite for Greek security, and we define stability to mean the practice of democracy, the strengthening of institutions, the reduction of economic inequalities and the rule of law," he said...
...vision for our immediate region is simple; we hope that Europe will once again be united," Papandreou said. "This vision stands as the guiding light in our foreign policy's foremost objective...
...Which disputed region is the flash point for India-Pakistan tension...