Word: teste
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...recognition that defensive systems could upset the nuclear balance was the propelling force behind the 1972 ABM treaty, the only arms-control pact that binds the two superpowers. It declares: "Each party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy ABM systems or components which are seabased, air-based, space-based, or mobile-land-based." The Administration says that merely undertaking research into such a project does not violate the treaty. Indeed, the Soviets have been spending perhaps as much as five times the U.S. amount on laser technologies and weapons, although they apparently have not developed such devices for knocking...
Venter, 51 and a triathlete, took the gene test immediately. "Questions I'd mulled over for years were answered, quite literally, in about a minute," he says. He had the version of the gene that produced none of the key power protein. And sure enough, he'd never had great results at the gym, but he once won a U.K. triathlon, he says, because he was able to keep his pace in the grueling final miles...
Venter had Genetic Technologies secure the rights to the test, and in 2004 the company launched it commercially. Today, with a quick swab of the inside of a cheek, customers around the world can have the relevant gene tested...
...world, our embassies increasingly cower behind barbed wire, disconnected from the societies they need to understand and help. America doesn't need to abandon the fervor that five years ago helped propel us into a disastrous war; we need to redirect it. Muscular moralism has had its day. The test now is whether we can effectively separate the two--carrying a big stick for self-defense but using less blunt instruments to improve the world...
...nice little splitfinger pitch.”Strangio is one of a handful of Harvard pitchers competing for the fourth spot in the starting rotation. Though the sophomore appears to be the frontrunner, the slot is still up for grabs. Before the Ivy League schedule begins, Walsh will test out a number of hurlers in an attempt to find one that can seize the starting role. “We’re going to be working a lot of guys in that spot,” Walsh says. “We may go with throwing five guys...