Word: shifting
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...part owing to the restrictive U.S. policy, the momentum in stem-cell research seemed to shift overseas. In 2004, South Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk announced that he had generated the first human embryonic stem cells from healthy people - and in the following year, from afflicted patients themselves - using an abbreviated cloning method. The latter feat would mean that cardiac patients could essentially donate themselves a healthy new heart without fear of rejection...
...servants. At his death, the household is broken up, the house sold: "Gone, and they the servants would never find another berth like this one, the gravity of the house, the gentleness of the master, the vast damp rooms, the slow lugubrious pace, the order within disorder." That generational shift, the breakdown of the feudal system into something recognizably modern but no less disorderly, gives Mueenuddin his subject...
...That's a marked departure from the Bush Administration, which sought to marginalize global diplomacy on carbon emissions. With a major U.N. summit on global warming just 10 months away in Copenhagen, the current shift is necessary if the U.S. is to regain leadership on climate issues and work toward an equitable international deal on reducing carbon emissions. "The U.S. is the only nation that can lead the world, and this is the most serious challenge the world has faced," said Gore...
...climate-change summits, are in favor of pushing for a new global deal on carbon, but even Republicans seemed to grasp Gore's message. Senator Corker of Tennessee, who has emerged as one of the more thoughtful GOP voices on energy, told Gore he could see the shift coming on climate. "We are now firing with real bullets," said Corker. "My sense is, this year something will really occur...
...Sure, admissions officers say they take into account the fact that some schools are more rigorous than others. But as more universities downplay the SAT or drop it from consideration altogether, colleges are making it known that GPAs are more important than ever before. And this shift is fueling a growing firestorm over grades: 75 districts in 12 states have relaxed their grading standards since 2005. Meanwhile, attendees at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities this month in Seattle argued for ditching grades in college and instead using the long-form "narrative evaluations" already required...