Word: testing
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Undergraduates can satisfy the present requirement in three ways: by scoring 560 on a College Board achievement test or a comparable test at Harvard; by taking two full language courses here; or by taking one full course in a language if they studied it for two years in high school...
...sentiment in the U.S.," and the fact that "many Americans find Asia remote and marginal to their interests." As for what the nation's position should be, "The ability to develop and defend policies attuned to limited objectives-including a policy of limited war-has become the vital test of the U.S. today. Our opponents count upon our impatience, our impetuousness, our immaturity. They must be proven wrong...
...persons suffering from genetic diseases. The same technique could have other far-reaching effects. The polyoma virus, which produces a variety of cancers in many animals, is almost identical in size and complexity to Phi X 174. "If one can take the polyoma DNA and modify it in the test tube by implanting alternate genes," says Kornberg, "some of these could prevent the growth of cancer cells...
Gasbuggy really is. After drilling a well to the top of the chimney, they will tap off gas freed by the explosion and test it for radioactivity. If the radioactive contamination is low enough for the gas to be usable without extensive -and expensive-purification, and if the gas continues to flow into the well in volume, the U.S. may well be on its way to tapping the 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas now tightly locked beneath the surface of the earth...
...down the runway at 50 m.p.h., stopped, reversed direction, then did a series of intricate ground maneuvers before lifting itself 10 ft. aloft and hovering in that position. Extending and retracting its landing gear, the craft climbed to 30 ft. and, in helicopter fashion, backed up in the air. Test Pilot Don Segner then gave the plane's single turbine engine the throttle, and the 55-ft.-long craft raced above the applauding gallery at speeds approaching its maximum of 250 m.p.h...