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  • "She is beginning to carry out more-complex sequences of movement in response to our commands, and even spontaneously," said Michael Lemole Jr., chief of neurosurgery at Tucson's University Medical Center, at a news briefing there Friday.

    Doctors See Positive Signs as Key Test Looms Tamara Audi 2011

  • The rise of urbanization allowed a fraction of the populace to focus on more-cerebral tasks — a fraction that grew inexorably as more-complex economic and social practices demanded more knowledge work, and industrial technology reduced the demand for manual labor.

    Get Smarter 2009

  • For years, the FAA has struggled with the issue of accelerating short-term improvements in airborne traffic control, while simultaneously pursuing more-complex revisions of procedures and practices designed to give pilots authority to determine their own flight paths, ensure safe separation from nearby aircraft and assume other tasks now handled by controllers on the ground.

    Airlines Want Satellite-Aided Airport Approaches Andy Pasztor 2011

  • South Carolina's big push into more-complex, higher-return investments began about five years ago, after the pension fund hired its first full-time chief investment officer, Robert Borden .

    Weaning Off 'Alternative' Investments Michael Corkery 2012

  • Instead, he prefers rocky hillsides where distressed vines, in a push to reproduce, pump energy into blueberry-size grapes that concentrate flavor and ultimately yield more-complex wines.

    California cult-wine makers pursue label of exclusivity Edward Robinson 2011

  • The rise of urbanization allowed a fraction of the populace to focus on more-cerebral tasks — a fraction that grew inexorably as more-complex economic and social practices demanded more knowledge work, and industrial technology reduced the demand for manual labor.

    Get Smarter 2009

  • The indirect-tax area has become much more complicated for intermediaries in recent years, because more jurisdictions are seeking to impose taxes and collect them, and the intermediaries must comply with more-complex regulations and report the taxes correctly to authorities around the world.

    KPMG Buys Thomson Reuters Tax Unit Michael Rapoport 2012

  • Some people are dabbling in cultured dairy products, which require bacterial cultures to make foods like yogurt, kefir, buttermilk and more-complex cheese varieties.

    The Latest DIY Craze? Say Cheese (and Other Dairy) Alina Dizik 2012

  • The organisms, created by a scientific team led by Joule co-founder Noubar Afeyan , can be tweaked to produce different fuels—one form can produce simple ethanol, while another generates more-complex diesel molecules.

    A Faster Path to Biofuels Michael Totty 2011

  • The focus is teaching pilots advanced maneuvers so they can recover from stalls and sudden flight upsets, often at higher altitudes, and confronting more-complex automation problems than typically found in earlier training courses.

    Major Changes Building in Commercial-Pilot Training Andy Pasztor 2011

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