I did not know that you could cook so well.

A number of genome wide associations such as zinc finger protein 804A have also been linked.

The whiteboard accepts touch input from a finger, pen or other solid object.

Dealing with elite interests requires ingenuity.

He ties the big toe of my right foot to my manhood with his nylon string. It is surely a piece of fishing line, from the feel of it.

Before amputation, there were five distinct areas, one corresponding to each digit of the experimental hand.

The cubit is an ancient unit based on the forearm length from the middle finger tip to the elbow bottom.

The Soviet system was particularly inept at handling information.

The first documentation of the disease is from Egypt in 2,600 BC in a description of arthritis of the big toe.

Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to dirty oil.

In the final larval stage, L3 , the grubs of larger species, such as Prosopocoilus giraffa , may be the size of a human finger.

In the French newspaper Le Monde, a highly intelligent commemorative supplement dubbed the period The Decade of Bin Laden.

Ending this conflict will require political adroitness as well as continued military firmness.

In some cases, the lead would be cast in a simple open mould made by pushing a finger or thumb into sand and pouring molten metal into the hole.

Unlike outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he surrounds himself with very skillful and experienced diplomats.

By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.

Human speech is an ingenious manipulation of our breath within the sound chamber of our mouth and respiratory system.

Their relatively small companies and their efficient decision making processes allow them to remain nimble and to react quickly.

De Gaulle s firmness and rhetoric aided, it must be said, by the fumbling of the rebels established the primacy of the state.

So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

By contrast, Yunus s Grameen Bank puts at best a microeconomic finger in the leaky dyke of Bangladesh s largely unreformed macroeconomic policies.

That had not happened, so I asked why so much financial skill and enterprise had not yielded obvious economic dividends.

The November 26, 2008, terrorist attacks on Mumbai were brilliantly planned, timed, and executed.

The situation is not insoluble, but it will require extraordinary skill and perseverance to bring it under control..

But the corollary of that is that, if we all are brothers and sisters and share the same genetic material, all human populations share the same raw human genius, the same intellectual acuity.

And that player's been told, remember the experience of that force and use your other finger to apply the same force down to the other subject's finger through a force transfuser and they do that.

That is not only because she is a poor public speaker, but also because she herself does not seem to know how to resolve the contradictions between national solutions and European constraints.

Obama can build on this in reconstructing the international financial system, but it will require great tact and foresight on both sides.

Chávez is a master at manipulating the media after the failed coup against him in 2002, he brandished a crucifix to pardon his adversaries and be pardoned by them.

In 2007, many people wrote off his campaign, but he had the skills to resurrect it and capture the Republican nomination.

His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

So we did some experiments where we saturated our poor patients with zillions of electrodes and then had them try to do two dozen different tasks from wiggling a finger to moving a whole arm to reaching for something and recorded this data.

There is one other thing that the public should know about economists It is cleverness, not wisdom, that advances academic economists careers.

Securing popular legitimacy requires equal dexterity, which has played an important role in preventing North African leaders and family members from openly admitting their preparations for dynastic successions.

He was a master at converting the complicated into the simple and, rather than being paralyzed by complexity, he found new ways to deconstruct and overcome it.

Those advocating extremism in the name of religion are active, well resourced, and whatever the reactionary nature of their thinking brilliant at using modern communication and technology.

Two key Indonesian leaders, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, showed remarkable political skill and courage in working out the peace deal for Aceh.

This economic prowess, together with the government s zero problem foreign policy, have helped make Turkey a leading regional power.

To be cleverer than the pack (and of course making money by his cleverness) seems to have been Tourre s driving passion.

To find the genes that can influence aging, researchers have begun to change individual genes in specific animal species, hoping to copy some of what evolution has done so well.

The Monitoring Team continues to regard the travel ban as an important sanctions measure against Al Qaida and the Taliban, but notes the ingenuity shown by terrorists who attempt to cross national borders undetected.

Leading the world in technological prowess while leading it from behind in terms of combat forces on the ground, if not in the air, America s shift of emphasis is impossible to ignore.

After all, breaching the ethical and legal barrier to permanent genetic modification could make it more difficult to block its application for treating non lethal conditions, or even for enhancing qualities like cognitive ability or athletic prowess.

There have been many recent studies of the subjective well being of adults around the world. But I know of no comparable research in which children were asked directly about their sense of well being a very smart question indeed.

But are we to assume that the same brilliance and creativity and adaptability that got us up to the top of that energy mountain in the first place is somehow mysteriously going to evaporate when we have to design a creative way back down the other side?