Word: existance
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...acknowledged that while null results can never be used to conclusively prove that ESP does not exist, he was glad to have done his part toward settling the age-old debate...
...matters of public policy, encompassing both international relations and domestic issues, the differences between the major Democratic candidates are inconsequential. This is true both because there are very few, if any, meaningful stated differences among them and, more importantly, because whatever differences that do exist are insignificant in relation to the more meaningful question of whether any of the candidates’ public policy proposals can ever actually be implemented. Voters may develop the impression that there are meaningful policy differences, but this is a tribute to their prejudices or to the skill of politicians in creating a general impression...
Ironically, The Wire might well not exist without the kind of long-form journalism it's hard to pay for today. As a Sun reporter, Simon spent a year on Baltimore's drug corners in 1988 for an assignment that turned into a book and then an NBC series, Homicide. His next project, with former cop and Wire partner Ed Burns, became the book and HBO miniseries The Corner. But then, frustrated at being unable to fit the complexities of street life and the drug war into the news columns, he took a buyout and went into fiction full-time...
...booming economy has allowed short skirts to co-exist with grandmotherly disapproval. "When I was 20, I had to save pocket money for several months to buy a pair of Levis," says Harjot Singh, a 28-year-old assistant manager with a call centre. "Today, many of my colleagues are 20-somethings... They have their own money, and the girls don't need permission from their parents to buy jeans, or for that matter, short skirts...
While both sides pleaded for calm, there were fears the violence could aggravate an enduring national tribal split between Luos, who support Odinga, and Kikuyus, who back Kibaki. The two groups co-exist in an uneasy rivalry in Kenya. On Monday, crowds of Kikuyus in the west of the country were reported to be fleeing across the border to Uganda, while six Kikuyus were hacked to death in the popular tourist port city of Mombasa. Police, given orders to shoot rioters on sight, imposed a curfew at locations across the country and barred people from leaving the slums, a tactic...