Word: reductionism
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For the Bush Administration, the election is producing anxieties of a different kind. The Administration has long touted the vote as a step toward handing over control to the Iraqis and paving the way for an eventual reduction of the U.S. troop presence. The establishment of a popularly elected government...
Job sucks? Tough. Because going forward the reevaluation of personnel will result in significant downsizing - strictly as a cost/benefit analysis correction - resulting in a reduction of opportunities for advancement. Know what I'm talking about? Hutch Owen knows. He knows it's b.s. He's that little guy inside your...
What about Bush's proposed individual accounts? On their own, they do nothing to solve Social Security's funding problems. Even the White House admits as much. Personal retirement accounts, "for all their virtues, are insufficient to that task," Wehner wrote in his memo. There's also an inconvenient fact...
In the study, scientists found that elderly lab rats fed curcumin experienced a reduction in the beta-amyloid proteins found in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. When researchers tested curcumin on human beta-amyloid proteins in a test tube, the chemical blocked the proteins from forming destructive plaques?meaning...
Doctors also know that statins can reduce inflammation. So cardiologists from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston put 3,745 patients who had experienced heart attacks or severe chest pain on statins, and later measured levels of both LDL and CRP. It turned out that patients who ended up...