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...seem laughable now, executives at CR and Consumers Union are not smiling at what some detractors and publishing analysts are saying about the magazine today: 1) its methods of testing and evaluating products are sometimes flawed and less objective than they appear; 2) the magazine has evolved from a neutral reporter into an advocate of politically correct but scientifically dubious environmental causes; and 3) as a general-interest publication, CR can no longer keep up with the flood of new products and hence cannot compete with the growing number of specialty magazines that rate, say, computers and the tidal wave...
...would be great to have a neutral, thirdparty that we could consult," he said...
...been male, there would have been no generalistic words that were simply nasty to say (leaving out race-based slurs, of course). With a few words, a matter of control got turned into a matter of gender, among a bunch of liberal idealists who work hard to find gender-neutral synonyms for "gunman...
Boslough describes himself as "totally agnostic" on the existence of antipodal volcanism. J.P.L.'s Kevin Baines, however, isn't neutral when it comes to the NASA team's sulfuric acid theory. "If the asteroid had struck almost any other place on earth, it wouldn't have generated this tremendous amount of sulfur." he says. "Dinosaurs would still be roaming the earth...
...posed this question to financial globetrotter Jimmy Rogers, who dispenses advice on CNBC. Until very recently, Rogers was "short" on Mexico -- betting against it -- so last week's events made him a happy man. He has cashed in his shorts, and he's neutral at the moment, neither buying nor selling, just biding his time. Rogers advises that people who own Mexican stocks should hold onto them because otherwise they'll be feeding the bargain hunters...