Word: fractionals
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...more committed than ever to a clean-up. But there are still signs that many in power don't know what they're up against. Fifty-eight athletes have failed drug tests during Olympic competition since 1972, but almost everyone acquainted with sport believes those 58 are a tiny fraction of the guilty. Anonymous polling has shown consistently that, as long as they think they won't be caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied the results of a poll of some...
...more committed than ever to a clean-up. But there are still signs that many in power don't know what they're up against. Fifty-eight athletes have failed drug tests during Olympic competition since 1972, but almost everyone acquainted with sport believes those 58 are a tiny fraction of the guilty. Anonymous polling has shown consistently that, as long as they think they won't be caught, most athletes would use drugs even with a high risk of side effects. In the lead-up to the Sydney Games, I studied the results of a poll of some...
What hasn't: Of the millions of shipping containers that enter the u.s. every year through 300 sea-and river ports, only a fraction are searched...
...numbers to chew on with 14 weeks to go in the presidential campaign: a thin plurality of Americans, 49%, thinks the U.S. was wrong to go to war with Iraq. A slightly larger group, 52%, believes the country is on "the wrong track." And, by a tiny fraction more (53%), Americans have decided it's "time for someone else to be President." But despite all that, only 46% of Americans are ready to hand the job to John Kerry...
...learn from the thylacine. Don't take (the platypus) for granted, because if you push it, it's likely to vanish.'" But the threat is much broader than that. In Australia, 44% of distinct mammalian groups have disappeared during the last 23 million years. Only a tiny fraction of that is man's fault: cosmic and natural forces (meteorites, volcanic eruptions, climatic changes) are adept at causing extinctions on their own. Nonetheless, Archer argues, the planet is on the cusp of another great extinction event - "and it's one we're precipitating . . . it's the first time in the history...