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...these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus we must prepare ourselves...
...clinical phase, nuclear transfer will require a patient to donate one of his or her own body cells. Clinicians then mix this body cell in a test tube with an egg cell, and produce life-saving tissue. Patients receive transplantation without being dangerously immune-suppressed. When considered in its actual context, nuclear transfer is a simple and highly innovative medical technique. It is a technical process with no intention of creating a human being...
...difficult texts or theoretical problems we encounter. Sections face the absurd task of making 15 or more people reflect on 100 pages of dense writings in under an hour. No wonder they are often a farce, and, in a popular definition, more the simulation of a discussion than an actual one. Students express unrelated but intelligent-sounding thoughts, and are then released to worry about their next assignment...
Among names stitched into Evans' work are Robert Fulton, often miscredited with inventing the steamboat but whose actual brilliance was in developing a market for river travel; Sam Colt, whose repeating revolver defeated foes of vastly superior numbers, was favored by Frank and Jesse James and set the standard for efficient mass production with interchangeable parts; and A.P. Giannini, whose Bank of America popularized mortgages and other loans for common folks...
...outlined rather complicated situations. Take the example of “Dalliance” from the Steve Albini-produced Seamonsters. Lyrics map out a simple story: Girl leaves boy for new guy, guy misses girl. But in the song’s raucous climax we find out that the actual subject is something much more specific...