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From this early encounter, Iraqi students had the chance to dispel their misconceptions of America—and Americans’ misconceptions of them—at a series of events throughout the weekend...
...releasing the transcript of his Jan. 14 remarks on women in science yesterday, University President Lawrence H. Summers acceded to one of the Faculty’s principal demands, but some professors say he failed to dispel accusations that he is unfit to lead Harvard...
...There’s definitely some small stigma attached to the science fiction association [at Harvard] and we want to dispel that, but at the same time we’re unwilling to change anything that we do just for the sake of dispelling that,” she said...
...maintains is for civilian purposes only, and only agreed to allow access as a confidence-building measure. While the IAEA says it has no intelligence supporting the U.S. claims, a diplomat familiar with the inspection process told TIME that the visit should help to nail them down - or dispel them. The latest sampling techniques employed by the agency can pick up traces of nuclear material even after a site has been meticulously scrubbed down, he said. As if to prove that point, diplomats also revealed that the IAEA has uncovered evidence that Egyptian scientists may have dabbled in experiments...
...shop in supermarkets, you'd be forgiven for thinking that apples come in only four or five varieties, and pretty bland ones at that. But a visit to Britain's National Fruit Collection at Brogdale would immediately dispel that notion. Brogdale boasts the world's largest collection of fruit trees across 61 hectares of fertile Kent countryside?over 2,300 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum and 220 of cherry, as well as more than 320 varieties of bush fruits, nuts and vines...