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...story illustrates two phenomena: how Palestinians automatically blame Israel for trouble of any kind, and how they are beginning to unlearn the reflex that has become so deeply ingrained. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a leading P.L.O. figure in Jericho: "It is a huge transition that we must make in our mentality...
...comfort level; people generally feel more to do with comfort level; people generally feel more at home among those they relate to. For many minorities, that group naturally entails others of the same race. No one anywhere is innocent of this desire to associate with compatible people. Moreover, the phenomena of self-segregation among minorities is more visible precisely because the students are minorities. As many have pointed out, people rarely notice, or condemn, a dining table or rooming group that is all white...
...finding have only a .25 percent chanceof resulting from non-top quark phenomena. Butphysicists still refused to call the new data aconclusive discovery...
Scientific knowledge of complex natural phenomena is far from absolute. It consists mostly of a collection of theories that are constantly evolving as they are refined or modified by skeptical and reasoned interpretation of new evidence. No doubt there are those who regard the uncertainties in the scientific explanation of human origins as another reason to reject it. But they miss the crucial point. The faltering steps of science eventually lead us closer to truths that stand up to rigorous, pragmatic tests...
...only people who have successfully evaded this formula are Matt Groening and company. "The Simpsons" is always full of "send-ups" of various cultural phenomena, but what makes them work is the lack of ironic distance at all. "Itchy and Scratchy" is not as different from "Tom and Jerry" as you might think. The informercials playing in the Simpsons' living room are almost exact replies of those playing in my living room right...