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...detect an underlying annoyance, you are correct. Did you have to add that outrageous and ridiculous prediction that Brown would lose to Yale? Have you forgotten already that Brown is my Alma Mater...
...only ten percentage points behind for nine-year-olds, and from 21% to 18% for 13-year-olds. Gains were reported for students in economically depressed areas. But 17-year-olds-both black and poor-remain as far behind as they were five years ago. Among questions that helped detect such differences: "The floor of a rectangular room has an area of 96 sq. ft. Its width is 8 ft. How long is the room...
...admirers are right when they detect in Carter an honest, decent, compassionate man, his critics may also be correct in thinking him somehow fatally limited. Even a sympathetic observer like Massachusetts Congressman Robert Drinan remarks: "There is something missing in Carter, something intangible." Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "I like Mr. Carter. I respect...
Other researchers are making a connection between sexuality and odor. The University of Colorado's Richard Doty conducted more than 100,000 sniff tests to determine changes in the ability of volunteers to detect a chemical called furfural, a scent found in cloves and cinnamon. One clear result: women have the greatest ability to detect the odor midway in their menstrual cycle, presumably because of a correlation between estrogen in the body and sensitivity at the nose...
...baby's heart rate, and an electrically wired belt across the mother's abdomen notes uterine contractions. Electrodes are attached to the baby's head to get an electrocardiogram. Blood samples for analysis may be drawn from the baby's scalp. The object: to detect fetal problems early enough for physicians to intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate in the U.S. has in fact declined since electronic monitoring was introduced in the mid-1960s, but there is little evidence linking the two. Moreover, critics...