Word: variants
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...During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
...There’s no reason somebody can’t write a variant to this program that would steal your credit card numbers or other information that you have stored on your computer,” Davis said...
...Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), a non-profit organization that works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine our gender identity and expression, regardless of income, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence. SRLP advocates for the rights of transgender, transsexual, intersex and other gender variant people...
...this outbreak, the disease could return next year?possibly in a more infectious form. Initial hopes that the virus would weaken as it passed through the human population proved false. Worse, mutations in the virus seem to accumulate and spread rapidly, which increases the likelihood that a nasty new variant could appear in the future?possibly next fall or winter, when environmental conditions could make SARS more contagious. (Some scientists theorize that SARS, like similar viral infections that produce colds, could settle into a seasonal pattern of infection.) "What we have to realize is that SARS may be with...
...focus on the average target, and some people deviate from the target,” says Jeruzalmi. But by analyzing individual genomes, he says, “you can synthesize the variant that’s going to be the best...