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In the six decades since Dr. Spooner's death, the phenomenon of transposed sounds has found a firm place both in spoken and written language.
Its increasing use in recent decades may have altered the subsequent risk of cancer in these women.
After praising Garten for taking seriously the possibility that "the growing ability of the 10 to produce sophisticated goods and services at rock-bottom prices could drag down the standard of living of even affluent, well-educated Americans," Tonelson chided him for imagining that developing countries, China included, would provide important new markets for advanced-country exports: "[C]onsumer markets in these emerging countries are likely to stay small for decades ...
A further problem is that the wealth of knowledge accumulated after decades of biological research has resulted in a considerable narrowing of research fields.
Although mathematics has long been intertwined with the biological sciences, an explosive synergy between biology and mathematics seems poised to enrich and extend both fields greatly in the coming decades (Levin 1992; Murray 1993; Jungck 1997; Hastings et al.