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...Nevertheless, the legislation has been “a political failure in the end,” he said...
...Nevertheless, the resistance to publishing negative results in scientific journals speaks to larger issues about the culture of science. That problem is the widespread belief that publication of big results in a handful of prestigious journals is the primary goal of scientists. In a commentary in the journal Nature last month, a prominent editor of scientific journals wrote about how the obsession to publish in the top journals such as Nature, Science or Cell has sometimes eroded the quality of work produced. The narrow self-interest that pushes scientists to focus on a handful of prestigious journals also prevents them...
...Nevertheless, the book is filled with less-than-rosy incidents from Britain’s imperial history. Indeed, Ferguson does not gloss over the exploitation, violence and racism that lay at the empire’s heart. Instead, by offering a wider perspective, Ferguson forces a reconsideration of the empire’s legacy. Although British ships did transport three million African slaves to the New World, it was the British government decided to abolish slavery and “to sweep the…seas of the atrocious commerce.” Brazil, Portugal and Spain all abolished slavery...
...Nevertheless, Klein was up to the task. Amidst the miserable weather, Klein drained a seven foot putt on the par-5 18th hole to finish with identical front and back round scores of 38. That gave him a total of 76, four over par and good enough to tie Babson College’s Fabio Silvagni for first at the end of regulation...
...series of miscues stopped the Crimson from building a large early lead. Nevertheless, Harvard went into the bottom of the fourth ahead...