Word: simpler
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...tightly regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Though the Pentagon possesses its own plastic explosive, a Semtex relative called C-4, a would-be terrorist would have to steal it from a military facility -- a theft that would probably be detected. Other explosives might be simpler to accumulate, however, like ammonium nitrate, an ordinary component of fertilizer that has been a favorite of the Irish Republican Army...
...Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays, which idle in dour exposition before revving into revelation, let them reproduce that effort every night. For playgoers, the appeal is simpler. Once O'Neill warms up his characters -- lets them loose after a few hours of hemming and thawing -- he can dish out terrific soap opera...
FINDING A SINGLE GENE AMONG THE ESTIMATED 100,000 genes scattered along the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells is every bit as daunting as finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. But now the quest has been made simpler, at least for two of those chromosomes. As reported in the research journal Nature, investigators in Paris have published the first map to describe in the correct order all the most important subsections of the 21st chromosome -- the one that harbors genes associated with Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders. Simultaneously, researchers in Boston published...
...said he has worked on the project off-and-on over the past two years. He said he initially planned to adorn the bench with assorted colored glass and water fountains. But because such a design would have been difficult to construct and maintain, Fitch decided to build a simpler, "hill-shaped" bench instead...
...certain race or ethnicity, one should realize that colleges that offer race-based aid packages (or any other perks based on skin color, like affirmative action) are really bribing the students into accepting a college whose race relations climate might otherwise turn them off. Universities find it simpler to lure minorities with money than to make the campus attractive to them in its own right...