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But that's not why the Republicans blocked the bill, which cruised through the Senate Agriculture Committee without a dissenting vote. They blocked it because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refused to let them bog down the floor debate with scores of unrelated amendments designed to box Democrats into uncomfortable...
The exception is Darfur, which still retains the power to shock and move. But the intensity of the crime marks it as the exception. Only genocides move us now.
DARPA's first driverless rally, in 2004, was an off-road race. This year the agency focused on urban features. The 60-mile (100 km) course included intersections and buildings, and contestants had to park and merge with traffic. On the outside, most of the vehicles looked quite similar: conventional...
For the fourth consecutive year, the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has named Harvard the world’s leading university. The University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Yale University tied for second position. Harvard also claimed top status within the categories of life sciences and biomedicine...
The one field of exception to this unseemly prejudice is sport, the real religion of Down Under. The idea of nonelitist sport is, of course, an absurdity. No Australian would waste time watching a football match in which nobody was better than anyone else, or a horse race in which...