Word: progressed
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...more you explore the communities along the river, the farther south you travel down into the Mississippi Delta, the more apparent it becomes that this is still a land unto itself, defined by its colorful, bloody past and wrestling with a different experience of this present explosion of progress and prosperity. It is a land apart even from the region that cradles the early stretches of the river itself, the Midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, which reinvented themselves three times in a half-century, moving from agriculture to industry to high technology. Wisconsin went from making milk...
...year-old guide in Vicksburg, Miss. Now there is a quieter conflict raging, not on the broad political stage but in the particulars of individual lives. Along the river, people hear about the new economy, but they don't have a ticket to get there. Information superhighway? Progress here is a back road, winding, scenic and personal, but slow by the standards of a country in a hurry into the future...
Thus everyone wants to talk about education, but many say the big problem is not more money or vouchers or class size; rather it is lazy or indifferent or overworked parents who can't meet with a teacher or help with homework. Progress on race comes in the most intimate gestures: Last December, as Elnora Littleton in Rosedale, Miss., tells it, she became the first black woman in those parts ever to preach at a white man's funeral. In this part of the country, she says, it is a milestone worth noting. "I made history," she says...
Maybe too much of an increase, argues Tom Delbanco, chair of general medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Discovery is intoxicating," he says. "But the consequences of discovery are often complex, and instead of progress, it can lead to disaster." Delbanco is worried that the revolution in genetic medicine may further drain the limited amount of time that physicians have to spend with patients and add even more costs to the already expensive health-care system...
...University of California at San Diego in six years. After a stint at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he was recruited by NIH's neurological institute, where he worked on locating and decoding a gene for an adrenaline-receptor protein in brain cells, but found progress exasperatingly slow. So when he learned in 1986 about a machine that could "read" genes by shining lasers on their dyed letters (A, T, C and G, the four nitrogenous bases--adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine--that spell out the genome's "words"), he immediately flew west to meet its builder...