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...same poll, which has a plus or minus three-percent margin of error, placed Bush ahead of Buchanan 60 to 31 percent in the Republican totals...
This gets me to the Mike Beys/Spin Doctors controversy. I won't deny that it was a grave error. I was the member who asked if it would be open to people 18 and over and according to people who attended the event, people under 21 were admitted. Still, I have felt since soon after that vote that a mistake had been made because of the conflict of interest. That $20 for publicity was never collected, but even so, this much attention to a $20 mistake when compared to the thousands of dollars of services that the Council has provided...
...hitch occurs while DNA is being copied in the cell, much as the same bar of music repeats on a scratched record. The DNA repeat gets worse with each generation, just as with each playing of a flawed record, the music stutters for a longer period. "Presumably the replication error occurs in the sperm or egg before conception," says molecular geneticist Pieter de Jong, who headed the Livermore team...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 16 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
...powerful--instead of confessing error and pledging to correct it--are deflecting the blame from themselves to the powerless: to the poor, to the child who just had a child, to the new immigrants," he said. Cuomoalso urged his audience to take action in thecoming election and to leave "the legacy of theBush-Reagan era" behind...