Nylon or synthetic towels or paper products are not as absorbent, and may scratch the finish.
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The new testing policies will undoubtedly catch a ball player of distinction abusing human growth hormone or synthetic testosterone.
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And this is not blind optimism or synthetic confidence to console people, it is the practical affirmation for our times of our faith in a better future.
But it is apparent, he said, that running on more rigid surfaces, such as asphalt or synthetic tracks, typically results in "more loading on the joints" and a greater likelihood of injury.
"It's not just more people driving, it's also every product that you buy is made of plastic or synthetic materials out of China is made with oil, " said Patrick Chovanec of Tsinghua University.
The National Federation of State High School Associations, which oversees the state entities that oversee most of prep sports in America, is now making available to advertisers the green, green grass (or synthetic turf) of high school football fields.
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Crude oil, or its substitutes, will be produced for decades, but at an increasingly expensive tariff, both in terms of cost and energy, as it is sourced in the form of a heavy, sour (high-sulphur) material, or in synthetic form from tar-sands, shale and coal.
Carbo Ceramics ( CRR - news - people )(CRR, 73) , a Houston firm that makes various forms of "proppant, " particles (sand or a synthetic substitute) injected along with the fracking fluid to keep the fissures propped open after the pressure is withdrawn.
But when the dust settled and the anger - synthetic or otherwise - had abated it was patently obvious he had not answered the question.
Under the law, anyone convicted of selling, making or possessing 28 synthetic drugs, including bath salts, will face penalties similar to those for dealing traditional drugs like cocaine and heroin.
But these days it's leaning more toward clean diesel engines that get high mileage and can run on newly popular fuels like gas-to-liquid synthetic diesel or biodiesel.
While no one would be fooled for more than a second or two that these synthetic actors are the real thing, the Thalmanns' work has some people worried.
Most ominously, both Mr Gove and the Tories' leader, David Cameron, are fond of party-pleasing prescriptions, including policies for which proof of effectiveness is non-existent (school uniforms) or limited (insisting on synthetic phonics for teaching reading).
Meanwhile, as some of the real talking heads on television become little more than cue-card robots, there may be a spot for a synthetic talk show host or news anchor.
Then, whether natural or artificial, the full weight of synthetic biology can be brought to bear on the problem.
Pfizer, Novartis and others are working on synthetic HDL that can be injected or even swallowed.
Pfizer, Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) and others are working on synthetic HDL that can be injected or even swallowed.
Instead of paying half its workers with the new method and comparing them with the other half, a company could pick five or 10 workers and compare them with their synthetic selves.
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Small airplanes flying today already are equipped with sophisticated gear that just a few years ago was available only to airline or military pilots: terrain warning systems, synthetic vision, direct GPS navigation, and more.
You can create synthetic exposures to just about any trend or price you like.
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Outlier recently updated the OGs with some subtle improvements but, just like the old ones, they are an entirely synthetic superversion of office-ready wool or cotton twill trousers.
He and his colleagues have been working on synthetic drugs called "Sirtuin activating compounds" or STACs.
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Prior to 2010, synthetic cannabinoids were not controlled by any State or at the Federal level.
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The air force is working to certify all its aircraft to use synthetic fuels made from gas derived from coal or biomass, using the Fischer-Tropsch method used by Germany during the second world war.
The plastination process involves replacing the natural body fluids with synthetic materials such as silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester.
Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.
Often the better environmental decision is not to choose a natural or organic path, as one would expect, but to go synthetic--like choosing polyester clothes over cotton.
What if a home-brew synthetic-biology club were accidentally to launch a real virus or bacterium?
To suggest that the CDS market is illiquid or open to manipulation is to misunderstand the symbiotic relationship between cash and synthetic markets in credit, which operate in exactly the same way and with the same benefits to investors as the cash and synthetic markets in interest-rate products.
It's not well-known or even thought about but ever since Leo Hendricks unveiled the first fully synthetic moldable hard plastic called Bakelite to the American Chemical Society in 1909, except for a very small percentage that has been incinerated, every single molecule of plastic ever manufactured still exists somewhere in our environment.
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