Word: yielding
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...major stumbling block to reform, Hamburg notes, is not a lack of money: simply reallocating current resources could yield dramatic gains. The higher hurdle is social selfishness. "People resist giving up what they have," he explains. One group that may be called on to sacrifice is the elderly, on whom vast sums are spent to sustain the last few weeks of life. Says Hamburg, who is 66: "People my age need to understand that our well-being depends on the workers of the next generation. Moreover, as a society, we've got to stop concentrating on the short-time horizons...
Just as worrisome is the threat to the world's food supply. High doses of UV radiation can reduce the yield of basic crops such as soybeans. UV-B, the most dangerous variety of ultraviolet, penetrates scores of meters below the surface of the oceans. There the radiation can kill phytoplankton (one-celled plants) and krill (tiny shrimplike animals), which are at the very bottom of the ocean food chain. Since these organisms, found in greatest concentrations in Antarctic waters, nourish larger fish, the ultimate consumers -- humans -- may face a maritime food shortage. Scientists believe the lower plants and animals...
Introspection can yield important lessons about oneself, but applying these lessons to a population is misleading and succumbs to the same fallacies of stereotyping. Daniel Choi's February 5 editorial "Off the Beaten Track," while raising some valid points, unfortunately loses them in a mass of confused generalizations...
...particular, alumni have complained about thegrowing share of the endowment that Universityofficials invest in high-risk, high-yield privateventures such as real estate, oil and gas, capitalventure and leveraged buyouts...
...Disappointing Truth Theory. There's nothing to see, after all. Necco is ashamed that their conversation hearts are--well--easy to make (3 T. sugar, 1 t. dye, 1 t. chalk dust. Yield: one conversation heart). They're afraid to let me see that the catchy sayings are not generated by the whimsy of a human mind but by a gigantic, humorless computer, nicknamed "The Lovemaster...