But the great challenge for the future will be to establish whether it is possible to devise experiments that can prove whether such a mechanism exists in nature.
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK 'Before you really have a lot of the scars, you don't really know what's that dangerous.' Tampa Bay Coach GREG SCHIANO, when asked whether it was harder to devise a game plan against a quarterback making his first N.F.L. start like the Jets' Geno Smith.
Further work is needed to determine whether it is possible to devise a practical method for calculating the Jaro, Winkler and other similarity measures using these techniques.
The question isn't who is "mom enough" as the TIME title suggests, but whether policymakers are smart enough to devise sound policies for breastfeeding, work, and paid family leave.
Sooner or later, as the nation struggles to contain health care spending, we may need to devise measures to determine whether very high-priced drugs provide enough medical benefit to warrant paying the bill.
Though we may feel vulnerable, the United States is better able to devise and deploy countermeasures, whether against skyjacking or anthrax or any still-to-be-deployed threat, than any other nation in history.
Mr. Whitfield and others also raised questions about whether the government was the best party to devise and put in place a do-not-track system.
For example, as suggested by Richard Burian, it might be timely (i) to explore the variation in the rates of lateral transfer in different gene families, and (ii) to devise ways to determine whether there are differences in selection regimes when genes from a given family are embedded in viral or plasmidial genomes on the one hand, or in cellular genomes on the other hand.
Going forward, law enforcement agencies will have to devise better ways of ascertaining whether someone arrested is a foreign national and of notifying the appropriate consular officials.
Yet the model could be improved, by clarifying whether its job is to critique government proposals, or to devise its own.
