Word: explaining
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Bell said evolutionary theory can both explain patterns in nature and predict future events...
...confusion helps explain why Saddam seems to have grown comfortable with his situation. Though the Desert Fox air campaign last December rattled his regime, and though there have been outbreaks of violence among Shi'ites in southern Iraq and even Baghdad, his security services always ruthlessly stamp out dissent. The CIA still believes Saddam will be eliminated by someone in his inner circle, but intelligence agents don't see how a "silver bullet" would ever get close to him. He has multiple layers of security around him, never announces his travel plans ahead of time, sleeps in a different...
Sticking criminals in prison protects citizens but throws no light on the process of how a person became criminal. If experts learn to spot tendencies that point toward criminal behavior, everyone can profit from the knowledge. Kaczynski seems likely to cooperate. "Let me try to explain it this way," he says. Let's listen up! FRANK E. NIESET Concord, Calif...
...fighting one of the innumerable syndromes that elderly flesh is heir to. For reasons that no neurologist can explain, many of her brain cells are filling with debris called Lewy bodies. Her symptoms resemble those of Alzheimer's, and like Alzheimer's, the condition is sometimes genetic...
...right or wrong. He was wrong in 1798. But if he had been writing 10,000 years earlier, before agriculture, he would have been right. And were his book being published today, on the brink of the third millennium, he would be more right than wrong. Let me explain...