Word: developing
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...piece of this grand picture missing? If there was something for everyone, why was there nothing for him? He would be better off back in Odessa, back in Ukraine. "I knew what it took to be a world-class swimmer, because I'd been in a program to develop world-class swimmers," he says now, 24 years old, the world-record holder in both the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes. "I knew I wasn't getting that here. No matter what I did on my own, I knew I didn't have a chance...
...little learning how to interact with other human beings. In a statement that probably left many in the high tech industry shuddering with fear, the Alliance called for a moratorium on computers in elementary school classrooms. The group calls instead on reading and creative group play to help students develop the skills they need in and out of school...
...have to clear out the tenants so that developers can develop the building," said Jeremiah P. Murphy Jr. '73, president of the Harvard Cooperative Society, which owns the building...
Stewart has concluded that siblings who were young rivals may be most likely to develop hostile or apathetic adult relationships. As I was discussing this finding on the phone with him recently, I could hear two of my daughters in the background arguing heatedly over whose turn it was to feed the dog. "If kids bicker, are they rivals?" I asked. "Are you asking this because of your siblings or your daughters?" Stewart responded. "They're that loud?" I asked. We both knew the answer. And if it's in my power to prevent another generation of painful memories...
...able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible for awareness of the ability to smell, is damaged early in Alzheimer...