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...numbers add up? With few overlapping products, neither company was talking last week about cutting lines of goods. As for job cuts, the plan calls for eliminating a relatively small number--6,000 of the combined firm's 140,000 employees worldwide. That won't save billions. Another argument from deal enthusiasts: the merger will give the firms greater bargaining clout with big retail chains. "This is a response to the Wal-Martization of America," says Joseph Altobello, an analyst at CIBC World Markets. A similar case is made regarding advertising purchases--that together the brand-swollen behemoth will...
...rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence at the U.N.: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick were excellent U.S. representatives during the Soviet era. And an argument can be made that the U.N., an institution the neocons despise, is the most appropriate forum for their passionate advocacy of freedom and democracy...
...roommate, Michael T. Drake ’08 made a more mathematical argument. “I’m not going to walk twice as far to Annenberg to get food that’s half as good,” he said...
...intellectual underpinnings of the latest assault on Darwin's theory come not from Bible-wielding Fundamentalists but from well-funded think tanks promoting a theory they call intelligent design, or I.D. for short. Their basic argument is that the origin of life, the diversity of species and even the structure of organs like the eye are so bewilderingly complex that they can only be the handiwork of a higher intelligence (name and nature unspecified...
...many scientists--and science teachers--don't think there is any valid criticism. Sure, some 350 scientists have signed a declaration challenging evolution. But many tens of thousands of scientists reject I.D.'s core argument--that evolution can't produce complex structures. Take the eye. I.D. theorists say it could not have evolved bit by bit because a bit of an eye has no survival value; it would never have been passed on. Biologists see it differently. They say, for example, a primitive, light-sensing patch of skin--a forerunner of the retina--could help animals detect the shadows...