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...examples, the use of direct mail to encourage Asian-American students to apply, travel by Asian-American undergraduates to make presentations at high schools where there are large numbers of prospective Asian-American candidates, and special recruitment efforts in April. In reviewing applicants, individual readers employ special sensitivity to detect and neutralize possible bias in materials submitted, such as teacher recommendations...
...substances, used in door panels and floors, account for about 14% of a typical airplane's weight, in contrast to 2% ten years ago. Stealth bombers and fighter jets are wrapped in skins of composite nonmetallic materials that help make the planes more difficult to detect with radar...
Then I realized that I was standing on the machine and that it probably had an internal scale to detect when people lied. I kept wondering if, after I left, the next person would be treated to the message, "Wooh! You're a lot lighter than the whale who was just on here." I briefly considered transferring to a river house...
Behind the angry words and glaring headlights many Hispanics and other residents detect a resurgence of nativism. It is no coincidence, they say, that partisans are divided roughly along racial lines. While no one suggests a formal link, the protests coincide with a surge in ethnic tensions and racially motivated crimes, both locally and nationally. "There's a potential for violence in these demonstrations," says Bill Robinson, a longtime spokesman for the San Diego police department. "What we're seeing is political conservatives protesting against people who are hungry and looking for work...
...first, these tests would be used to guide physicians in selecting , therapies. In fact, screening for oncogenes is beginning to help clinicians identify a few particularly aggressive forms of cancer and tailor treatments accordingly. Eventually, scientists may be able to fashion tests sensitive enough to detect the presence of abnormal genes in undiagnosed patients well before the cancer has embarked on its Shermanesque march through the body. Such tests would no doubt be lifesavers: if caught early enough, many cancers can be cured by surgery alone...