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...easy to decipher the role the sciences should play in the expansive field of art history. While Cavanagh maintains that an understanding of human visual perception is helpful and informative in—if not essential to—the study of art, Livingstone understands that barriers do exist. While some scientific developments, like fractal analysis, have already swept the world of art history, she claims, others may not be accepted so easily by art historians. “Anything innovative takes time to be understood by the establishment, especially if it takes them outside their areas of expertise...
...almost to itself. And that won't be a good thing for anybody. "The lack of a strong second player may unmotivate Baidu to improve" is how JPMorgan's Wei puts it. The company has gone from a Silicon Valley start-up, in a field that didn't then exist in China, to a nimble competitor that was challenged by the global king - and won. The risk that one day it could turn into a hoary monopoly simply because it lacks a serious competitor in its home market was a preposterous notion when the new year began...
Although it is certainly true that barriers against gay Americans no longer exist in many aspects of contemporary society, an attempt to change the military’s stance on differing sexual orientation is a particularly significant step. While the military—which integrated blacks in World War II long before federal law ever did—seems recently to have forgotten the progressive elements of its history, the geographic diversity represented in the armed forces will make the eventual repeal of DADT an especially effective move. There are few organizations that simulate a more accurate picture of this...
...Theory of Inequality” by Farley and Stone) is based on the false premise that Larry Summers made a confident assertion about gender differences; in fact, he laid out three different hypotheses in his 2005 talk. Farley and Stone refer repeatedly to a theory that simply does not exist. Speculating about three possibilities is quite different from stating (testable) results that follow logically from a collection of axioms—that’s what a theory...
...goat) that a man gives a woman's family for impregnating her outside marriage. He also blasted the "harsh media exposure" on the child, saying it was "unfortunate" and "merely because of the position I occupy." "The media is in essence questioning the right of the child to exist and, fundamentally, her right to life," he added. (See pictures of South Africa...