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...program, not just to free the U.S. from its dependence on foreign oil but also to develop new environmental technologies that could replace dwindling manufacturing jobs. All the Democrats now have similar plans, but Kerry pushes his more assiduously than the others do--and he offers it as an implicit alternative to the harsh protectionism (and thus higher prices) pushed by Dean and Gephardt...
...Chen may be refraining from calling a referendum on sovereignty, but that's unlikely to appease China. Not lost on Beijing is the message implicit in Chen's Nov. 29 announcement to call a referendum: in the face of Chinese aggression, Taiwan?for the first time since it split with China in 1949?has the legal means by which to hold a nationwide vote on independence. "It's a powerful weapon for mustering emotional support from the international community should any threat be made by China to Taiwan's sovereignty," says a DPP official. "It's precisely the kind...
...student who works at the admissions office interprets Harvard’s take differently. By his account, Harvard admissions officers work from “implicit classism” when they determine what it means to be qualified...
...Planetary protection” contains an implicit acknowledgement that scientific knowledge is never final or complete. We have been wrong before in the history of space exploration, and we should not wager our planet’s safety on the assumption that we need not worry about extraterrestrial life accidentally brought back to Earth. All of our ideas about life elsewhere are based on extrapolation from one example—Earth life—and science is not at its best when basing sweeping conclusions on a sample size of one. Although common sense strongly suggests that the threats...
...could be excluded because rural kids may not be familiar with them. Questions showing even the vaguest bias are excised; you will never find a woman measuring cups of flour in an SAT question. The concern is that girls who read such a question will be distracted by the implicit sexism, and so their answer will reflect not their ability but their distraction--that's noise...