Word: assertation
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...Economists often talk of the "curse of oil," pointing out that countries with resources such as oil often grow more slowly, more corruptly, less equitably, more violently and with more authoritarian governments than others do. The authors of Escaping the Resource Curse - Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz and Macartan Humphreys - assert that there is "a strong association between resource wealth and the likelihood of weak democratic development, corruption and civil war." Western oil workers in the Middle East lived in secure compounds with armed guards long before hijackers hit the Twin Towers. Is that same pattern developing in the Niger Delta...
...other hand, there's John Dingell. Michigan's eternal Congressman, defender of Detroit's carbon-spewing gas hogs, would seem an unlikely cause for optimism. After all, his wife Deborah is a General Motors Foundation trustee, leading his critics to assert that Dingell is literally in bed with the auto industry...
...state had not caused enough trouble in 2000, Florida now wants to assert its primacy as a presidential kingmaker by jumping to the head of the line to hold its primary ahead of Super Tuesday. If Florida commits to Jan. 29, that would mean a line of candidates forming in Tallahassee to seek the blessing of the state's remarkably popular new Republican Governor, Charlie Crist. Another election, another Florida chief executive on the spot...
...regards the U.S., this entire debacle is an issue of self-determination. The Cherokee repeatedly assert their hard-earned right to self-determination, and in this instance, the right to determine their citizenry. But their position is contradictory; self-determination is not just the right of the majority to exclude, but the right of a people to self-identify. If the freedmen identify as Cherokees and can stake a legitimate historical claim to that heritage, they should be allowed membership in the Cherokee Nation...
...fatal neurodegenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease through a novel use of embryonic stem cells from mice. Supporters of embryonic stem cell research have long pointed to the potential to use these cells to directly treat diseases of the nervous system. But the Harvard and Columbia teams assert that stem cells have a broader application in providing critical information for understanding many other human diseases. The researchers have harnessed stem cells from mice embryos, which can develop into any kind of tissue, to create mutant nerve cells for studying the early stages of disease. “With this...