Word: experimention
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Or maybe not. An experiment described in the current Nature suggests that the huge carnivore did indeed have the most powerful bite in history. Researchers led by Gregory Erickson, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, figured that if they could reproduce the T. rex bite marks found...
We tried to imagine the 12th-semester junior down the hall--the one with the tangled hair and the Fu Manchu mustache--knocking on the door of a future Senator and saying, "If you've got a little time to devote to the search for truth, some folks in our...
...here we are, in the summer of 1996, with Susan Molinari--someone who was barely out of college when politicians began to describe collegiate pot smoking as experimentation--saying, "I did experiment with marijuana." She says she did it "less than a handful of times." She says that "looking back on it, it was the wrong thing to do." Evidently the guy with the Fu Manchu mustache still hadn't graduated...
So the nation is embarked on an immense experiment in social policy whose outcome will not be clear for years. And there may never be one all-embracing answer as to whether it will work. The central themes of the about-to-be law are clear enough. There will be...
Can Prince William Save the Monarchy [WORLD, July 22]? Why should we think that is desirable? Rather than fawning over a 14-year-old who has done nothing to deserve his celebrity other than being born, we in the U.S. should be occupied by our American experiment. The political breakthrough...