Word: unfoldment
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...fall, will China be satisfied to rumble on its own, or will it lash out at the world? When Deng dies and Hong Kong is coopted, will it rumble more quickly towards capitalism? The first of the events in the chain has just taken place; what follows will soon unfold...
...Wisconsin, Madison, "the most depressing in Rwanda and the most hopeful in South Africa." In South Africa optimists find a jubilant example of the victory of democracy that the end of the cold war has ushered in. But out of Rwanda come warnings about how other struggles may unfold in this next dangerous generation...
Even so, cancer is hardly inevitable. For example, 50% of Americans will develop at least one precancerous polyp in their colon at some point, but only a fraction of such polyps will develop into aggressive tumors. Why? Usually it takes so long for colon cancer to unfold that most people end up dying of ! other causes. Indeed, contrary to popular perception, getting cancer is not at all easy. To begin with, a cell must accumulate mutations not in just one or two genes but in several. In the case of colon cancer, Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Baltimore...
...writing to call your attention to certain inaccuracies in the article entitled "Junior Arrested at Grill" (April 12, 1994). As I was the only person who saw the events unfold from start to finish, I would like to set the record straight on behalf of my friend Leslie Lewis...
...sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given to opinion and guesswork, will in their case be marked by an asterisk of moral doubt. Perhaps that ambiguity...