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...also be attributed to a self-perpetuating effect--lower crime rates mean police have more time to patrol, which helps to reduce crime even more, according to industry experts...
...heard that it was a terrifying, mean, competitive and aggressive place," Rakoff says. "But I didn't think that the students were cutthroat and competitive. I think it was a colder place than...
When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
Instead, I would like to clarify my statement that there are two ways of going about being on the council: either you can tear everything up or you can work within the system. This does not mean that you cannot push for policy change within a system that currently exists. I think this is what we have done. Successful examples include UHS reforms and Universal Keycard Access. Although unsuccessful, the council also fought hard to preserve Science Core exemptions for students with AP scores and to oppose the cut in blocking group sizes...
...except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering more nutrients, reducing spoilage and curtailing chemical contamination. Besides, natural doesn't always mean good: cassava, for example, can be toxic if not properly prepared...