They didn't want him to be a superhero, they just wanted to harvest all his fire-resistant blood platelets to help them future-proof their super-serum.
But they will develop some skills that should help them in future, and that signals a big trend.
Get students to spend a few minutes writing down how doing well at school can help them achieve future goals.
For many banks, raising more money from investors might help them lower future write-downs, said Stuart Plesser, an analyst at Standard & Poor's Equity Research.
For example, companies that lowball their guidance to help them exceed future earnings expectations may add to investor anxiety but also often make their stock briefly cheaper.
Many of those who did vote muttered that they only did so for fear that local-government officials would not help them with future permits if they did not have the right stamp on their registration cards.
This week, as the biggest game of the college football season loomed, Alabama's coaches turned their attention away from Texas A&M to look forward, toward players who may or may not help them in future seasons.
The bank announced Thursday that it would offer a loan program totaling ¥1 trillion, or about $11.7 billion, to financial institutions in the disaster area, in an effort to help them meet future demand for funding needed for reconstruction.
By suggesting to a subject that they have travelled forward in time, Walters can help them rehearse future strategies - walking into a job interview feeling good about themselves, for instance.
The team hoped the observations could help them improve future weather forecasting capability.
In this review, I will attempt at clarifying some of them, with the aim of providing researchers with a unifying conceptual framework that could help them designing future studies.
