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Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited - on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously - the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" - Big Government, Big Business, Big Media - are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America - Palinville - have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just...
...second part of the study, Francis' team looked at the same children two years later, at age 5. This time, the kids were tested on whether they could resist temptation and delay gratification from food. Each child was asked to pick a favorite among M&Ms, animal crackers and pretzels and was then placed in a room with two piles of the chosen snack - one large pile, one small. Before leaving the room, the experimenter told the children they could eat from the smaller pile at any time, but if they wanted to eat from the larger pile, they...
...second game to give the Crimson the lead. She outdid herself this time around, going deep again in the third to put the game out of reach. “I was just coming out, swinging hard,” Shaw said. “We wanted to pick ourselves up from the first game and just really prove to [Princeton] that we weren’t going to lay down and do what we did the first game.” HARVARD 5, PRINCETON 2 Left with a bitter taste after a disappointing loss, the Crimson came out looking...
...Giving parents the ability to pick what they consider “desirable” phenotypic traits has implications beyond family planning; as a society, we risk creating arbitrary divisions between those who have these traits and those who does not. Indeed, the entire practice smacks of eugenics programs, where humans are “bred” to represent what society considers to be desirable traits. Eugenics has become synonymous with ideas of racial purity; in Nazi Germany, programs in “racial hygiene” and the prevention of racial impurities were officially sanctioned...
...NASA stated in the rules for its poll that the agency would reserve the right to pick the final name for the new module. Rumors suggest NASA may still use the name Colbert for a mission-critical component—the toilet. If nothing else, they’ve got a sense of humor...