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...there's a tortoise-and-hare quality to the campaign. Dean dashing, the others slogging along, ducking brickbats and trying to explain themselves. (Senator John Kerry, whom most of the candidates privately see as the front runner, was recuperating last week from prostate-cancer surgery.) There will be changes soon. An embarrassing swarm of newcomers - including a buffoon brigade, starring the Rev. Al Sharpton - seems likely to clog the stage in the coming weeks. But the biggest changes will be outside the candidates' control: this campaign, more than any other in recent memory, will be defined by events...
...buyers made the rational calculation that off-roading and towing might be useful in an emergency. (At a time when everyone is duct-taping the windows, it doesn't seem so crazy to think you would one day drive the family into the mountains.) How else to explain GM research showing that the No. 1 reason people buy midsize SUVs is that the vehicles have four-wheel drive, a feature most people rarely need? Americans frequently pay extra for security: alarm systems, travel insurance, fire extinguishers. If you consider what they can do on dirt and snow, SUVs aren...
When scientists struggle to explain the weird implications of quantum mechanics, in which electrons can spin simultaneously clockwise and counterclockwise or dart here and there at the same time, they often fall back on a scenario concocted more than a half-century ago by the physicist Erwin Schrodinger...
...maintained is an ongoing struggle. For example, Wanted! In China, which News Corp. pitched as "legal education" in order to win approval from the Ministry of Public Security, is made in a police-run production house. The host, a Beijing cop, sounded too Orwellian at first. "We had to explain to him that he should sound caring about the people," says Hao Fang, who oversees the show for News Corp...
...source of moral sense, and might be termed the “God of biology.” Collins cited C. S. Lewis in his description of a common moral law that underlies the way people from all cultures try to relate to each other. Some biologists explain the common altruistic behavior of humans and other animals as a mechanism that helps preserve the species. Thus, the rules of morality stem from the need for humans to band together to preserve their genes. For example, betrayal of family members is generally considered to be wrong across widely different cultures. Likewise...