Word: toolboxes
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Saving cats in an ever more crowded world is a complicated task. Scientists have devised what Rabinowitz calls a "toolbox of strategies" to deal with threatened cats in different parts of the world. Here are some of the tools that offer the most promise...
...retirement communities that she works with on a regular basis. "If there's no room for the china cabinet in the new apartment, what do you do with your three sets of china?" she says. "Why pack the contents of the garage when you won't even need a toolbox...
...personal acquaintance with parasite after parasite. Before getting his medical degree from Harvard, he spent a year in sub-Saharan Africa, treating patients in Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe just as the AIDS epidemic was emerging. "My experiences overseas gave me the idea that you could use a very different toolbox to tackle the heart-disease problem," says Ridker...
...speaker and can fog up a mirror, you can teach" English abroad. He projected a cartoon on a screen to show the advantages of being unofficial: a man wearing a turban and dagger halts a standard-issue, briefcase-toting missionary at a striped barrier while another Westerner carrying a toolbox strolls blithely through, toward a mosque in the middle distance...
...That option, however, is not in Powell's toolbox. His job this weekend will be to turn the optimistic phrases of Aqaba into a working peace agreement. And it's an unenviable...