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...Clinton voters: Obama voters: 44% Men 45% 52% Women 38% 39% 18 to 34 59% 49% 35 to 54 42% 53% 55 and older 32% 45% Some high school or less 43% 52% High school graduate/some college 36% 44% College graduate 49% 56% White 33% 10% Black 81% 46% Other 46% 51% Income less than $50,000 a year 37% 45% Income more than $50,000 a year 49% 41% Protestant 46% 65% Catholic 26% 58% Evangelical/born again...
...mindful of the need to protect wildlife, there's been one way to get the job done: separate the animals from the people. To Tusumba, that always smacked of colonialism. Draw lines around any community, and you impose your will on the populations on both sides of the boundaries. "Older environmentalists wanted to preserve the people as well as the animals," says Tusumba, "like they were pickling specimens in a bottle." If this was culturally stultifying for humans, it was lethal for wildlife. Africa's national parks have been historically poorly policed, with officials herding animals together and leaving them...
...science simply continued to inform us on random trivia facts, all would be well; however, science, not quite content with its role as an older sibling, has decided to become a parent and start bossing us around...
...like to think that science has a role similar to that of an older sibling. Science has of course been around longer than any of us and is quite useful in catching us up to speed on the world. I still remember when my older brother first told me that atoms have three parts: electrons, neutrons, and protons. I was floored. Three different parts! All ending in “ons!” The recent Harpers’ Findings testifies to the knowledge that science can still provide: natural disasters have quadrupled in the past two decades, thousands...
...moral, political, and dogmatic force. For example, science tells us the weight of calcium and voltage of lightning; the Science tells us not to eat trans-fats, how often to get colonoscopies, and how many cups of coffee are safe for daily consumption. While science is like a cool older brother, the Science is like a nagging mother: “How much have you been drinking?” “Are you getting enough sleep?” “Have you been wearing your seatbelt?” “What about condoms...