Word: robustly
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...faith's worshippers to withdraw from a multicultural society. Malaysia's economy is being challenged by regional competitors, with many questioning the future of the affirmative-action scheme that has served as the country's financial bedrock. At the same time, a nation that once prided itself on its robust institutions is finding these foundations eroding. Little wonder, then, that up to a million Malaysians, mostly the white-collar talent needed to keep the economy humming, have simply abandoned the country since independence; by the government's own estimate, 70,000 Malaysians, the majority ethnic Chinese, have renounced their citizenship...
...Collective wants us to come to their Jamboree vs. Malaria. Harvard boasts nearly 400 organizations—somewhat above the Ivy League average: Yale has 249; Princeton “more than 200.” And all of these groups, I am willing to bet, have their own robust, bracketed e-mail lists. Big fish from small-to-moderate-sized ponds are now all swimming around together and founding After-School programs right and left. Academic prowess aside, Harvard admissions parlance divides students into “well-rounded”—those...
...Simon, a good 40 years Baume's junior, echoed that view. Wearing a bright yellow T shirt advertising himself as a supporter of Ken Ticehurst (an early Liberal casualty), he was bewildered by the rejection of Howard's robust economy. "If you want a job in Australia, you can get one. How many countries can say that?" A pretty brunette, leaning over just enough to drip champagne on the carpet, added, "It's a really odd time to throw out a government...
...trouble of creating embryos when stem cells can be coaxed directly from properly manipulated cells? At least for the time being, says Dr. Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, embryonic stem cell research should continue, since it's not clear yet how robust and safe stem cell therapies from other methods might be. "My answer to that question comes from a different perspective," he says. "Not from a scientific or political one, but from a patient perspective. A patient doesn't care how we got there. They're suffering from a disease and want...
That's good news for anyone trying to control tuberculosis, which has proven particularly difficult to track in the poorest parts of the world, where medical equipment has to be both affordable and robust. Where clinic staff lack the advanced lab resources to culture TB samples, they test for TB by smear microscopy - a laborious and often ineffective process in which a patient coughs up some sputum and a technician looks at the sample under a microscope, trying to pick out the bacteria by eye. That method "is very good at finding people who are infectious," says Liz Corbett...