Word: catalysts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this case about health. At the same time, he was hinting at something they didn't know, a simplified Hinduism that was fascinating to a nation of seekers. Says Richard Perl, CEO of Chopra's new corporation, Infinite Possibilities, somewhat grandly: "The world is using Deepak as a catalyst for a step it's ready to take...
While Lewis is the most immediate catalyst for student discontent, current national political tides have also sparked concern and response. The activism of the conservative Congress, particularly through the Contract With America, seem to have reinvigorated young leftists...
...play politics to change lives. When Head Start funds were made available to the states in 1965, for example, Mississippi did not sign up. But a group of public, private and church organizations, with Edelman on its board, applied for the money and saw Head Start become a powerful catalyst in the state's black community. When then Senator John Stennis tried to get Congress to cut off its funding, Edelman, at that point 25, went to Washington to fight back--and won. "This was my first big lesson about government," she says. "There was no one in Washington...
...said combinatorial chemistry allows scientists to quickly produce every possible permutation of a catalyst with many interrelated components. The compounds form on microscopic "beads" and can be studied individually under a microscope...
Jacobsen says he foresees learning more about chemical relativity and selectivity during the rest of his career. He says he hopes that lifetime scientists will be able to understand chemical systems and predict whether a reaction or catalyst will work...