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Moreover, we agree with Mr. Singer that we were in error in attempting to interrupt the sacred forum of a Harvard classroom. We offer our most humble apologies to the entire university, and even to the threatened heritage we are trying to uphold. Sometimes, in our zeal, we go too far. We hope our jubilant "disruption" did not tarnish the great honor we hoped to bestow upon the award recipients...
Results from the random sample of 1,008 adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points...
Without these emotional reflexes, rarely conscious but often terribly powerful, we would scarcely be able to function. "Most decisions we make have a vast number of possible outcomes, and any attempt to analyze all of them would never end," says University of Iowa neurologist Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. "I'd ask you to lunch tomorrow, and when the appointed time arrived, you'd still be thinking about whether you should come." What tips the balance, Damasio contends, is our unconscious assigning of emotional values to some of those choices. Whether we experience...
Some researchers argue that even with these caveats the report overstates the case. Says Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric scientist at M.I.T.: "The margin of error in these models is a factor of 10 or more larger than the effect you're looking...
...Hampshire Republicans finds that Colin Powell is virtually tied with Bob Dole. Of the 633 voters polled, 23 said they would vote for Powell if the primary were held today, compared to 22 percent for Dole -- essentially a tie, since the poll has a 5.3 percent margin of error. Perennial New Hampshire favorite Pat Buchanan would get 12 percent of the vote, with Lamar Alexander taking seven percent. The biggest winner among skeptical state party members? Undecided, with 27 percent...