Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Eventually, even his bitterest critics had to face the fact that Venter had not been dealing in hype. And, in the end, the genome project was forced to adopt some of Venter's ideas to avoid being left behind. "It was," admits Watson, "the correct way to go." Thanks to Venter's maverick ways, says Phillip Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "we have the human genome four years early, and it's spectacular. Craig is to be applauded for doing this...
...reports in Psychology and Aging, older adults are more likely to live longer if they feel that they have control over their lives or fulfill roles that they find important. In a national study, elderly Americans who strongly identified with being a parent, grandparent or care provider tended to adopt more healthful behavior and took better care of themselves. Folks who felt that they had no control were more likely to smoke, drink and suffer from obesity--all risk factors for early death...
...more difficult to reach a settlement," and suggested that his administration would try to avoid the mistake of pushing for a final agreement on Jerusalem. Cheney's comments underline the expectation that the new Bush administration will eschew President Clinton's activist, micromanaging style to Mideast peace, and may adopt a less optimistic approach. The stated intention of President-elect Bush's foreign policy team is to formulate policy on the basis of a more clearly defined U.S. national interest, and that may make the new administration more inclined to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a problem...
...there's another reason: Putin is trying to build a new foreign policy. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin's Russia tried to give up the old Soviet foreign policy and adopt positions more accommodating to the West, and more in line with the thinking of democratic countries. But there was a strong conservative backlash against that policy, particularly from within the security and intelligence establishment, which insisted that Russian national interests were being sold out. Eventually, Boris Yeltsin was forced to succumb to this pressure, and appoint Yevgeny Primakov as his foreign minister, straight from Primakov's position...
...stuff of which cars were made also became the stuff of art. Only in '60s California would artists adopt the artificial seductions of auto finishes, the glittering sprayed enamels and fiercely inorganic colors of glaze that made Ken Price's little ceramic sculptures so immediate and memorable. They manage to look luscious and poisonous at the same time, and in terms of what curator Barron and her team have set out to show--the weird confluence of vectors in a flawed and contradictory ex-paradise--they are perhaps the most "Californian" objects in this whole enormous show...