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Instead, Kravitz's team found a pair of large serotonin-containing cells, which, when stimulated, bias the system towards either stimulation or inhibition of the muscles involved in the postures...
Although a handful of black soldiers have been awarded the Medal of Honor since 1863, questions about possible bias have been raised in Congress. Last week President Bush named Corporal Stowers as the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War I or II. The medal is the nation's highest award for valor. "He fought not for glory," said Bush as he presented the award to Stowers' sisters, "but for a cause larger than himself -- the cause of liberty...
...detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology...
...more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide victims. They don't even stay in touch with them." Later this year Congress will consider a measure that aims to enable defendants to quash death-penalty sentences if they can provide evidence demonstrating a racial bias in sentencing patterns...
...menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip...