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Such responses are similar to those experienced by adults during surgery. However, Hickey says, the lack of established knowledge of the conscious experiences of infants means, there is no way to know whether they experience pain, although one might infer that the physiological changes are indicative of pain...
...information about the past can be gained by examining meteorites, Marvin says. Since cosmic rays continually bombard meteors in space, researchers can determine the age of meteors by using radioactive isotope dating techniques. This dating method allows scientists to infer what conditions prevailed when the sun and earth were formed, Marvin says...
...mill, garden variety stars, and planets are a natural by-product of star formation, and planets like Earth should be numerous," he says. "We're finding many complex molecules in space... the conditions for biology are widespread. We infer that since animals have evolved here, life could be a common phenomenon, just like stars. There should be hundreds of sites...
When Samantha, a consultant to a California nonprofit corporation, is invited to company events in which spouses are welcome, she brings her housemate, Jill, a college professor. The two women are rarely explicit about their relationship. They just assume that co-workers will infer, correctly, that they are lovers. "I never came out and told people at work I was a lesbian," Samantha says. "You don't come out and tell people you're straight. I felt it was up to them to figure...
Several people accused me of racial insensitivity, pointing out that I described minorities as clustering together in the dining halls, but never observed that whites sit together also. From this some felt at liberty to infer that, as one critic put it, I believe "all-white tables are 'normal' but, for some reason, the all-Black or all-Chicano tables are not." Others inferred that I am unaware of the racism embedded in some whites, which is another reason for segregation in the dining halls...