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...Alckmin's sudden rise - he had rarely polled more than 30% - was a shock to Lula, who believed his landmark social programs and solid handling of the economy would be enough to give him an outright win. Analysts said many voters made up their minds to vote for Alckmin at the last minute not because they like him but because they wanted more time to make a decision. Lula's refusal to participate in the debate left many voters angry, and they wanted to punish him by forcing a runoff. "People thought, why am I going to vote for someone...
...term, big cases on divisive social issues mean Roberts is likely to struggle to build such consensus. Still, he'll try in order to boost the court's "stature and legitimacy," he said in July. When the court can choose either a narrow but unanimous ruling or a sweeping, landmark decision by a 5-4 vote, he said, "I think it's better to decide on the former ground, and let it go at that...
...example, that injecting a chicken with a particular blood protein from a human, a gorilla or a chimp provoked a specific immune response, whereas proteins from orangutans and gibbons produced no response at all. And by 1975, the then new science of molecular genetics had led to a landmark paper by two University of California, Berkeley, scientists, Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson, estimating that chimps and humans share between 98% and 99% of their genetic material...
...course will also hear from John E. Jones, the judge who presided over Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the landmark 2005 case that struck down the teaching of intelligent design in public schools...
...writer and became Egypt's spiritual father. The characters from his books were the vocabulary of everyday life. It is common to hear an Egyptian woman, quarrelling with her husband, shout in his face, "You think you're Si Sayed?"?a reference to the tyrannical husband in Mahfouz's landmark Cairo Trilogy. He laid the foundations of the modern Arab novel and proved that a great artist?he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988?must also be a great human being. Thousands of Cairo's inhabitants saw Mahfouz during his long daily wanderings on foot and were captivated...