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Does Buchanan really use "Dukesque racial code words"? No. You just took his words out of context. What Buchanan did was to express his opinion that America is a Western nation. To illustrate his point, he merely said that one million English immigrants would probably adapt more easily to American society than would one million Zulu immigrants. Does anyone really doubt that this is true? You not only do not know what he was trying to say, you don't seem to care either...
...primary competition in both parties quickens, the importance of broadcast advertising escalates. Democrats face contests in 22 states this week and next. This brutal pace precludes extended personal campaigning in any one state, forcing candidates to adapt their strategies to how much they can advertise and how much free exposure they...
Romero said he plans to continue the organization next year or to adapt it to the larger needs of Harvard's bisexual, gay, and lesbian community...
...reservoirs behind the dams have slowed the smolts' traveling time from seven days to six weeks. This increases their exposure to predators and to higher water temperatures that make them susceptible to disease. The combination can be fatal, throwing off the delicate biological clock that allows the salmon to adapt miraculously from fresh to salt water once they get to the sea. The smolts that survive face a grisly threat: the majority end up ground to a pulp in the deadly turbines that create the cheapest electricity in the country...
...celled plants) and krill (tiny shrimplike animals), which are at the very bottom of the ocean food chain. Since these organisms, found in greatest concentrations in Antarctic waters, nourish larger fish, the ultimate consumers -- humans -- may face a maritime food shortage. Scientists believe the lower plants and animals can adapt to rising UV levels by developing UV-absorbing cell pigments. But that works only up to a point, and no one knows what that point...