Word: proof
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...catch-22 of the testing is that no one knows how many markers need to be tested. "No one has defined what that threshold might be," said Sensabaugh. "An ad hoc number like 8 to 10 provides the presumption of rebuttable proof of identification...
...Stolorow claims that the proof exists to invalidate Lewontin and Hartl's concerns. "The amount of population substructure is negligible," Stolorow says...
...class whites and lower-class Blacks. This fact, borne out by decades of scholarship, strongly suggests a genetic component. But even if intelligence were in some significant or concrete way the product of environment, Murray and Herrnstein argue persuasively in the most recent New Republic that the burden of proof is on their critics to point to a "single educational, preschool, day care or prenatal program that is not already being tried" that could be shown to enhance...
After a year and an investment of more than $50,000, Macworld's offices are still not RSI-proof, but they are ergonomically correct. Much of the computer industry, by contrast, still seems to be in denial. Even in advance of the osha proposals, the Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association -- which represents two dozen computer makers -- petitioned the agency to back off, arguing that guidelines are premature because the link between computer keyboards and RSI has not yet been proved. But the companies know better, according to a lawyer representing RSI victims in the IBM and Atex lawsuits. Internal...
Addressing 200 people in Yenching Auditorium, Lake pointed to the recent events in Haiti and Iraq as proof of the importance of American force. "At the heart of American power is the threat of force," Lake said. "Without it there would have been no progress in Haiti, no progress with Iraq...