The second chapter, "The Great Experiment", continues the examination of Stone Age progress by looking at the advancements in hunting.
Perhaps this is apt; there can be few people in this country better suited to a wide-angled examination of the current state of progress.
In 2008, the first triennial follow-up interview and examination of the data collection in progress covers the same contents as the 2005 baseline, with some elements added from the annual self-administered questionnaires (e.g. detailed information on mobility and ADL difficulties).
Re "In Long Drive to Cure Cancer, Advances Have Been Elusive" ("Forty Years' War" series, front page, April 24): Your examination of scientific progress against cancer reminds us of the complexity of the cancer problem, but it misses the mark by concluding that little progress has been made in the war on cancer.
Such a situation arose with adjustments that had to be made to the manner in which the results of the progress examinations were calculated.
According to the pathologic examination, depletion of Treg cells caused delay of the progress of silicosis but did not change the consequence (Table 1 and Fig. 3).
Those lucky to get in received dental care, vision tests and eyeglasses, mammograms, pap smears, tuberculosis tests and physical examinations that monitored the progress of such chronic diseases as cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma.
Our research provided the first systematic examination of progress in achieving federal- and state-regulated water quality improvements at an individual river segment level.
From a Google doodle of abolitionist Frederick Douglass to the New York Times's "Unpublished Black History" project, BHM today seems to have moved away from a carte-blanche projection of progress to an examination of the uneven reality of being black in America.
The first outstanding example of the genre was the Confessions of St . Augustine(c. ad 400), a painstaking examination of Augustine's progress from juvenile sinfulness and youthful debauchery to conversion to Christianity and the triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
