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...That's the worst kind of pressure on behalf of affirmative action," he said. "It ensures that if and when those goals are reached those people [hired or tenured] will be perceived as inferior and probably will be inferior...
...Africa and more than 4,000 in the Tsodilo Hills in northern Botswana. Indeed, the rock art is so plentiful that despite the hundreds of rolls of film donated by the Getty Institute, Coulson can afford to shoot only the best examples. "We skip over images that are either inferior or too recent," he says...
...Medicine. The research analyzed the effects of five different types of digital cell phones on a focus group of 980 pacemaker users. Noticeable interference in the pacing mechanism was detected 20 percent of the time, with potentially serious disruptions occurring in 6.6 percent of the cases. Despite their inferior communications performance, older phones, which employ an analog signal, caused relatively little interference with the pacemakers. Experts caution that further research is needed to determine how significant the cell phone risk...
...underestimate the seriousness of the Harvard men's lacrosse team's disturbing 14-13 upset loss to Dartmouth last Saturday. Dartmouth is and has been for some time an inferior team to Harvard, and the Crimson cannot afford to throw away easy wins to a less skilled team like Dartmouth...
...lacrosse team upsets teams like Princeton and Virginia. A good team has no trouble beating Ivy League cellar dwellers like Dartmouth. But the sign of a once-good team that could be about to embark on an alarming decline is a team that little by little starts losing to inferior opponents. And that's true in almost all sports...