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What Sanger claims is not that the site should fall out of favor. Rather, he feels that it (and, he would argue, any other would-be reliable source online) needs to jettison some of its “anti-elitism” in favor of a legitimate peer review system, one which displays a genuine respect for authority. If, for example, there’s a dispute over the evolutionary development of women, shouldn’t we hasten to give more credit to a noted biologist than to an economist? And at any rate, shouldn’t either...
...Philip Ahn (though he was billed 10th). She's the daughter of an antique dealer who is threatened, and killed, by a smuggling ring he is trying to expose. In an early scene, smugglers are shown flying aliens into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang...
...brand name?a task made easier by its sponsorship of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As for IBM, the deal with Lenovo looks like a boon. The company, which retains a 19% stake in Lenovo, has long migrated toward consulting services and software, so it's happy to jettison its hardware shop. The PC unit experienced a loss of $258 million last year and has debts of $500 million?problems that now fall to Lenovo...
Most of the people I’ve spoken to since Nov. 2 don’t say we need to jettison core values to win rural America. The problem, they say, is not substance, but tone. Democrats, they say, are arrogant. But I think it’s a little disrespectful to suggest that rural Americans voted for Bush because Democrats sounded snobby. Rural Americans aren’t angry because Democrats support equal rights with a certain tone. They’re angry because we support equal rights. And even if our nominee runs away from social liberalism...
...deadline. The law, he says, "enables Americans to perform a simple but significant act of patriotism every time they visit the grocery store." On the other side, Representative Charles Stenholm, a Democrat from Texas, mindful of Lone Star State feedlots that import Mexican cows, is co-sponsoring legislation to jettison mandatory labeling in favor of a voluntary system. That bill is backed by the four processors--Tyson Foods, Swift & Co., Cargill and National Beef Packing Co.--that control 81% of the nation's cattle market. They argue that foreign governments could retaliate for any labeling law by blocking American produce...