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...quotation marks. To veterans this may seem obvious, but it's the simplest way to trim millions of search results down to a manageable list...
...everyone knows exists but no one knows how to solve. Perhaps this is because AIDS is a global issue that defies categorization: it has become so much a social issue that touches development, poverty, and public health, though it is still nothing but a virus. It is at its simplest a microscopic retrovirus and at its most complex an indicator of societal patterns ranging from prostitution to the unequal distribution of wealth and pharmaceuticals.What was once ignorantly considered solely a gay disease now has now been shown to be biologically nondiscriminatory with regard to gender, race, or socioeconomic status...
Over time, the experiment's sleep-restricted subjects became so impaired that they had difficulty concentrating on even the simplest tasks, like pushing a button in response to a light. "The human brain is only capable of about 16 hours of wakefulness [a day]," says Dinges. "When you get beyond that, it can't function as efficiently, as accurately or as well...
...said that because of the recent spike in oil prices and environmental concerns about fossil-fuel emissions, nuclear power is looking attractive again [Nov. 14]. But the sun is also a proven source of energy, and the technology for tapping into solar power is available. In one of the simplest of several variations, an array of mirrors focuses sunlight on a tank filled with water, heating it and producing steam that can be used to generate electricity. Large numbers of such solar-power plants could be installed in hot deserts and other sunny areas. Iran claims that it needs nuclear...
...Rodgers may be many things--tough taskmaster, Green Bay Packers fan--but reticent he is not. And if anything gets the pugnacious founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor talking, it's the notion that corporations ought to exist for more than the pursuit of profit. In the simplest terms, that idea--called corporate social responsibility, or CSR--invites companies to consider their impact on people and the planet on a par with their traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that...