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...doubt it gets slightly funnier when there is a civilian around whose leg can be pulled. Interviewer Mark Baker, however, clearly knows how to nod and outwait the baloney as he plays the journalist's strongest card, which is his knowledge that people have a powerful urge to explain themselves...
...That's what they would have you believe. But this is a free country; we can choose our jobs. That's a tired excuse used by people that somehow want to explain away what they're doing. "It's just...
...Sargasso Sea, meanwhile, Venter was shocked to find nearly 800 genes for making light-sensitive proteins like those found in the human retina--quadrupling the number of photoreceptors known to science. "This suggests," Venter wrote in New Scientist last May, "that some new type of light-driven biology may explain the Sargasso Sea's unexpectedly high diversity of species...
...strategy is pretty simple," President George W. Bush said last week, of his continuing determination to pass Social Security reform. "Explain the problem to the American people, and keep explaining it and explaining it." There was defiance but also a certain frustration in his voice as he said this. The Gods of Wisdom in Washington have determined that Bush is in a trough. His poll numbers are declining. His approval rating is back where it was-in the mid-40s-before it was artificially inflated during the 2004 campaign by the dread prospect that John Kerry might replace him. Social...
...said, to discuss “the issue of women’s representation in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions.” Summers presented three hypotheses—predicated in part on research, part on his own observations—to explain the observed underrepresentation of female scientists and engineers at top universities...