Word: thriving
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...Tcells to recognize and attack the tumor cells. Then they cultured the Tcells to multiply their number and injected them back into the patients along with a T-cell growth stimulator. But first the researchers suppressed the cancer patients' immune systems, giving the injected T cells room to thrive...
What everyone seems to consistently overlook is that no two humans metabolize nutrients in the same way. To believe that one diet can cover everyone's needs is ludicrous. Some will thrive on a low-fat diet like the one devised by Dr. Dean Ornish, while others will do well on Dr. Robert Atkins' low-carbohydrate diet. My conclusion? Moderation. Most Americans just eat too much. Period. LAUREN JONES New York City...
...study in nihilism. He misses the joy in Africa, is panicked by the sight of bush, takes African leaders to be representative of their people. The point about Africa is not that it is hideously governed?anyone can see that?but that its people have learned survival skills and thrive in spite of their greedy governments...
...National Agricultural Research Organization of Uganda has developed corn varieties that are more resistant to disease and thrive in soil that is poor in nitrogen. Agronomists in Kenya are developing a sweet potato that wards off viruses. Also in the works are drought-tolerant, disease-defeating and vitamin-fortified forms of such crops as sorghum and cassava--hardly staples in the West, but essentials elsewhere in the world. The key, explains economist Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, is not to dictate food policy from the West but to help the developing world build its own biotech...
...crops, whereas yields of sorghum and millet in sub-Saharan Africa have not increased since the 1960s. Green groups hoping to earn the trust of the developing world should lobby hard for the resources of Big Agriculture to be plowed into discovering crop varieties that can handle drought and thrive on small-scale farms...