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Sharp smell The new genome studies have located the genes that give the bee its acute sense of smell. Smell is vital in an insect that uses pheromones both to communicate locations and to indicate rank...
...between me and my horse--and between me and my partner--helped us ease our way through the minute adjustments, missteps and trip-ups that went into an exercise that was more a test for us than it was for our complacent cayuses. I may have looked like a rank urbanite, but we finished off the maze in short order, which probably surprised our horses more than...
...much of an improvement as fusion voting will be, there is a better alternative: instant-runoff voting (which is also known as ranked choice voting, Hare-Clark proportional voting, and several other names). A more radical electoral change than fusion voting, instant-runoff voting (IRV) will enable voters to rank candidates instead of voting for just one. After an instant-runoff election, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes redistributed to the remaining candidates. The process of elimination and redistribution continues until...
Friday’s revelation appeared to indicate that Knowles had chosen to penalize Shleifer’s professional rank in the economics department, where he is considered one of its star professors...
...nation. (To be fair, Blagojevich, 49, has improved on the $5 billion deficit that Ryan bequeathed to him.) And though the PR-savvy incumbent has bragged about being an "education governor" in announcing initiatives to expand preschool opportunities and toughen academic requirements for high school graduates, Illinois continues to rank near the bottom in state education spending...