Word: problem
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...doesn't think crime is Area 4's biggest problem, partly because the area's situation has improved in recent years...
Indeed, the problem, he says, is that residents "can't afford...
According to Lewis, the field of computer science sees a similar problem with concentrators tending to enter the business rather than academia--which results in a small number of black and Latino computer science professors...
...this context of accepted scientific procedures, single occurrences present a knotty problem. Their "truth" cannot be denied, but how can we use their existence to assert any generality rather than an explanation for a singular circumstance? For specific events of history--the rise, domination and extinction of dinosaurs, for example--we seek no such generality, and specific narrations for bounded events supply the explanations we seek. Thus a particular asteroid, striking the earth 65 million years ago and leaving evidence of its impact off the Yucatan Peninsula, probably triggered a global extinction that sealed the fate of dinosaurs and many...
...problem is that after 350 million years of evolution, your kitchen-variety cockroach is exquisitely designed for survival. A single female German cockroach (the most prolific of the seven major pest species) generates 35,000 descendants a year on a diet of just about anything: table scraps, toothpaste, glue, hair--even, in a pinch, her young. Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only...