I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

But in embryonic, I think there's some truth that we're falling behind because there's a lot that we can't do, ... I think, particularly in Asia, you see a lot of advances that are not happening in the U.S. If you polled U.S. scientists, I think there would be a sense that the U.S. is falling behind.

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

If there's not a major push for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act, many of the advances we've seen in the past two decades will be severely undermined.

Even with those advances most manufacturers are not making a great deal of money and customers aren't happy, ... Lean consumption involves solving customers' problems completely, not wasting their time, providing exactly what the customer wants, in a location they prefer and a timeframe they need. And finally it is helping customers reduce efforts to solve their own set of problems.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

I am excited to announce Opera's sharpened focus on bringing the full Web and open standards support to TVs, consumer electronics and other devices. Advances in broadband networks and device computing power have set the stage for an explosion in the number and variety of places we will see Opera powering Internet access.

We are seeing advances everyday and deaths are decreasing. It is a direct correlation.