Word: conditioner
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The question is called the Needham paradox, after Joseph Needham, the great British scholar who raised it in his multivolume history of Chinese technology. Needham's answer sheds light on China's ultimate condition, allowing us to sort through the buzz of short-term problems that distract attention from the...
But while the nation-state has been the pre-eminent institution of the modern world for several centuries, it is now seen to be in a condition of decay. Throughout the world, people are reconsidering what they have in common and what distinguishes them from others. Modernization, economic development, urbanization...
Congress is about to make life a lot tougher--and more expensive--for people like the Trapp family of Plantation, Fla. As if their life isn't hard enough already. Eight-year-old Annelise, the oldest of the three Trapp children, is a bright, spunky, dark-haired wisp who suffers...
Along the way, Smith's physical condition deteriorated, and he had to quit his security job. He developed throat cancer and now speaks through a voice box. "I got sick," he says. "I got a thyroid [condition], cancer, low sugar, high blood pressure, heart murmur. I got everything. I'm...
It was for Maxean Bowen, a single mother raising an 11-year-old daughter. A social worker in the foster-care system in New York City, Bowen helped rehabilitate parents with substance-abuse problems. In 1998 she developed a painful condition in both feet that made it difficult for her...