Word: complexity
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...brain is so complex and neuroscientific experiments are so difficult to interpret that this whole picture could change in a year. Whatever happens with neurogenesis, the fundamental notion that engrams are made by stringing together neurons--whether new ones or old ones or a combination of the two--is likely to survive in some form...
...economy and the affluence of the black middle class, Emerge's circulation was stuck at 160,000, one-tenth the size of Ebony's. It had been losing $1 million a year. Says Roy Johnson, editorial director of Vanguarde, which in April became joint owner of Emerge in a complex deal with BET Holdings II Inc.: "From a business standpoint, suspending publication was an easy call. As a new company, we simply could not afford to carry a magazine that was trending downward like that...
...point out that future tests outlined in the document actually get easier. "They're setting these tests in ways that increase the chances of success," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Pentagon can certainly claim expert backing for the claim that their earlier tests may have been too complex, but their problem arises in the fact that they claim that even in these complex tests, the system proved capable of distinguishing between warhead and decoys. If that is the case, then they face a question about why the subsequent tests should be made easier...
...People are very much shaped by the complex set of factors in their environment and you'd be missing a part of a person if you didn't understand what that person may have had to deal with," Fitzsimmons says...
...interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever a SCUD was fired, giving it a minute or two's advanced warning of incoming," notes Thompson. Missiles fired from Iraq, separated from Israel by Jordan, had to travel some 300 miles before reaching Tel Aviv, whereas Hezbollah is able...