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...candidates who have just gotten shellacked, the best strategy is a declaration that the results didn't matter because of the peculiarities of the specific contest. George W. Bush mastered this in 2000. After he lost the New Hampshire primary by 18 percentage points to Senator John McCain, he downplayed the significance of one victory: "The road to the Republican nomination and the White House is a long road. Mine will go through all 50 states." Then he argued that McCain, "spent more time in this great state than any of the other candidates, and it paid off" - the rhetorical...
...have so many manufacturers and so many companies together, [and they may say this is] something that will be really tough for me, and I don't know if I can do it in time. All those things, but they do it. The bottom line is, we've gotten great support right from the beginning, and from very unusual partners. That was really good and it helps us move the agenda forward. When big companies like that [Pacific Gas and Electric] sign on to it and say we endorse this, then other companies are going to look at this list...
...docs would disagree that the MRI is a better test. Except for being somewhat less sharp when looking at bone, MRI is clearly more sensitive and versatile. But CT scanning has made a huge comeback in the past five years. Almost every office day of late I?ve gotten new patients who have had CT scans in the emergency room - scans that I don't really need to treat them...
Technology has gotten us into the climate change mess, and we assume that technology will get us out of it. Hybrid cars, wind turbines, algae biofuel - businesses and policymakers alike are searching for the technological fixes that will decarbonize our lives. But the deeper problem may be how - and where - we live our lives. The dominant pattern of development in America - large houses and sprawling, auto-dependent suburbs - requires a heavy input of fossil fuels and an output of carbon emissions. The adoption of cleaner technologies will take us part of the way, but what we really need...
...There have been some disappointments, Aktipis said, as not all students have gotten into the college of their choice...