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In the second study, Garret Miyake, a chemist at Colorado State University, and his colleagues report the development of a related organic catalyst that’s more selective.

These synthetic porous materials of interest to chemists specializing in selective encapsulation include such buzzwords as metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks, and zeolites.

As for managing my feelings, I’m careful and selective as to what news or information I consume.

But the desire to avoid costly wars is clearly a selective calculation.

Presidential campaigns fully took advantage of the upheaval, calling their own shots on the debates — there was only one between Trump and Harris — and being more selective in their formal media appearances.