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...Tony Jenkin's technical foul shot, after an illegal sixth timeout called by a Big Green player, with zero time on the clock produced Sanders's first coaching win. (Incidentally, both the AP and this reporter are guilty of stating no time remained in that game, when actually a fraction of a second was left before the buzzer...
Harvard's Lou Silver called time out after Goldson's layup but the officials ruled the Crimson would only have a fraction of the last second to try to tie the game. A full-court in bounds pass from Silver to Bill Cary went away as the buzzer sounded...
...confusion of the "descriptive heritability" about which I have been writing, and the second quantity, which I shall call "predictive heritability." While descriptive heritability is that proportion of the variation in a population ascribably to all genetic differences, predictive heritability is the proportion of variation ascribable to a special fraction of the genetic variation. It is always smaller than the descriptive heritability, and it is very difficult to estimate in any human population. Only one, worthless, attempt to do so is known to me. Now, all of the predictions made about the effects of differential patterns of fertility, assortative mating...
Jail Clinic. Prounion physicians like Harness believe that organizing is an idea whose tune has come. Though unions still represent only a small fraction of the country's more than 300,000 practicing physicians, their strength is increasing inexorably. The A.M. A., which is frankly alarmed by the trend, estimates that anywhere from 25,000 to 30,000 doctors now pay dues to unions of various types. Most of them belong to the American Federation of Physicians and Dentists, which was founded last January with 7,500 members and now has a national membership...
...scope of federal authority is now so vast and diverse that no member of Congress or executive branch department head can be aware of, let alone be able to exert any meaningful influence over, more than a fraction of even those issues and programs within his or her particular sphere of specialized responsibility...