Word: straightforwardness
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Biology, alas, is rarely so straightforward. Researchers came to realize that it wasn't safe to give estrogen alone to a woman with an intact uterus. Unopposed estrogen, as it is called, dramatically increases the chances that a woman will develop uterine cancer. (Obviously, this isn't a problem for women who have undergone hysterectomies.) The addition of progestin, another female hormone, seemed to take care of that problem...
...science is straightforward. Two years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a "biological opinion," urging the Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates the water, to change the way it runs the dams, warning that the steady flow threatens three endangered species: the piping plover, least tern and pallid sturgeon, a long-snouted behemoth that looks like a refugee from the Jurassic period. A higher spring flow would signal the sturgeon to spawn and would provide food; the piping plover would find hospitable nesting ground on sandbars carved out by the rushing current. A summer drawdown would create shallows...
...THERE In a straightforward account to author Daniel Paisner, Richard Picciotto of the New York fire department describes four hours spent trapped in the World Trade Center's North Tower...
...popularity. But the music feels like a collection of eerie sound effects in search of a memorable tune to adorn. On the covers, Neil Young's I've Been Waiting for You and Cactus, a song by '80s post-punk band the Pixies, the futuristic soundscapes complement good, straightforward rock songs that provide what the album desperately needs: energy...
Relatively straightforward are issues like graduate student financial aid and improved resources for training public servants...