Word: developing
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...Roses won the APOE4 argument. Everyone now agrees that this gene is indeed a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. But unlike APP and the Presenilins, it is a susceptibility gene. People who carry it do not invariably develop Alzheimer's, but if they do, their brains appear to be more riddled with plaques and tangles than the brains of Alzheimer's patients who carry slightly different versions of the APOE gene. Even more intriguing, APOE4 appears to have a broad impact on the well-being of nerve cells. Among other things, people who carry two copies of APOE4...
...thought that this new curator of poetry...might be able to join people in Houghton who are thinking about contemporary writing," says Bill P. Stoneman, Librarian of Houghton. "[The new curator] could help us develop an awareness of what people are doing...
...determined geographic regions. The Pentagon's environmental-impact statement says the pairings are needed to meet unspecified "reliability requirements." The Federation of American Scientists posits that placing the stations in pairs, fairly far apart, reduces the chances that in-flight communications will be lost because of storms that may develop over a single IFICS site...
...little like the one uttered years ago by Republican Newt Gingrich. Gingrich proposed bringing back state-run orphanages to rescue at-risk children from unfit mothers. My dad admits the similarity between his idea and Newt's and doesn't apologize for it. "If it takes a fortress to develop youngsters into positive, confident, thinking young men and women, then why not?" he asks. It's a compelling idea, but there are problems with it. What parents would want to give up the care of their child? Quite a few, says my father. "I think many parents here would...
...military and the arms industry, insist that North Korea could be in a position to drop warheads on your home town by 2005; critics dismiss this timetable. And even if Pyongyang, whose missile program has been dormant for the past two years, could muster the technical wherewithal to develop such long-range missiles, the naysayers argue, there are a growing number of political and economic factors militating against North Korea's pursuing this course...