• The exaggerated drawl of bassist Oliver Sim precedes the more human-scale croon of guitarist Romy Madley Croft.

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  • In string theory, the forces and particles of which the universe is now composed are actually vibrations of tiny strings made from these ten dimensions (six of which are confined to such strings, and thus are not perceivable in the human-scale world).

    ECONOMIST: A matter of gravity

  • It is also involved in the International HapMap Project, a five-country initiative launched in October, to follow up the Human Genome Project with a large-scale study of human genetic variation and its relation to disease.

    ECONOMIST: Chinese biotechnology

  • When Greek and Italian debt yields started to spike we witnessed the rare event of a human-time-scale criticality.

    FORBES: Reinhart and Rogoff; and The Dangers of Tipping Points, Real and Otherwise

  • Now comes the hard part of translating this preliminary result into a vaccine suitable for large-scale human trials.

    FORBES: Outsmarting AIDS

  • Animal tests have yielded promising results, and large-scale human trials are expected to kick off in coming months.

    WSJ: Nanotechnology Holds Promise for Heart Patients

  • Stable agricultural communities are the prerequisite for the development of advanced culture and any kind of large-scale human endeavor, right?

    FORBES: Connect

  • As Sugen headed toward costly large-scale human testing of SU5416 in 1999, it needed a collaborator with a fat wallet.

    FORBES: Targeting Tumors

  • It often insists that foods already on supermarket shelves be treated like drugs and run through a gauntlet of preliminary studies before large-scale human studies can begin.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • He found that when he transplanted a million human leukemia cells, full-scale tumors would almost always take hold in the mice.

    FORBES: Cancer Killer

  • Although he shows enthusiasm for the battery project, Gambarota, who now spends much of his time developing micro wind turbines, is sceptical about the future of human-power on a mass-scale.

    CNN: Are we heading for a human-powered future?

  • As great forces of history converge to human scale, this modern-day boom town feels like the Wild West but without the confident self-reliance: the articulate residents are painfully aware of the close link between their sustenance and their misery, and international bureaucrats reveal a terrible disconnection from the reality on the ground as they encourage the unchecked development.

    NEWYORKER: Darwin's Nightmare

  • As well as search and rescue bots, Choset's team have designed small-scale devices for use in human surgery.

    CNN: Snake robots slither to the rescue

  • The move from level three to level four on the WHO's six-level threat scale means the world body has determined the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission -- a major step toward a flu pandemic, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the agency's assistant director-general.

    CNN: The story

  • After obtaining from Genentech, Inc. the recombinant E. coli bacteria that contained the genetic blueprint for and that synthesized human insulin, they developed processes for the large-scale cultivation of the organism (in huge fermenters similar to those that make wine or beer) and for the purification and formulation of the insulin.

    FORBES: When Genetic Engineering Came Of Age

  • But the sequencing of the human genome, an example of the power of industrial-scale science, inspired him, and he wanted to fund something similar.

    FORBES: Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain

  • By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.

    FORBES: Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services

  • Despite the enormous emotional impact of such a large-scale event, he helps us reconnect with the individual human element.

    FORBES: Where Were You On 9/11?

  • "Yet, we still face a great challenge - a unprecedented challenge in human history to working towards decommissioning the plant in such scale, " he said.

    BBC: Japan PM Abe praises Fukushima nuclear work during visit

  • Not only did government regulators underplay scientific evidence of the effectiveness and relative safety of DDT, they also failed to appreciate the distinction between its large-scale use in agriculture and more limited application for controlling carriers of human disease.

    FORBES: Beyond Copenhagen

  • The country's Ministry of Health had then moved to allay fears over the outbreak, saying that although further human bird flu cases were possible throughout China, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, Xinhua and CCTV said.

    CNN: China records its fourth bird flu death this year

  • But what it gave us, with its short, 200-foot block lengths and small, 20- to 25-foot lot sizes, its direct and easy navigability, is a walkable, personal city at human scale, where every street is an endlessly varied and inviting series of visual experiences, of constantly changing shopfronts, restaurants and buildings of infinite styles and uses.

    WSJ: The Greatest Grid | Museum of the City of New York | Crosshatching a Miracle | By Ada Louise Huxtable

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