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Nonetheless, these "Thinking liberals" disgust me. Don't get me wrong--although I am conservative, I have nothing against thinking. But I greatly prefer the honest liberals who refer to themselves as "bleeding hearts." I respect them for their self-awareness and their sophisticated understanding of how political views are to a large degree socially determined...
Perhaps Conley is unaware that hospitals and humanitarian relief centers in this Muslim community have been systematically destroyed and that impartial observers refer to Gorazde as a slaughterhouse. Maybe in a future strip, he will ridicule victims of the current massacre in Kigali, Rwanda, where the death toll now stands at a staggering...
Until last week, p53, the subject of some 1,000 scientific papers in 1993 alone, was considered the most important cancer gene. The journal Science even named it Molecule of the Year. But now there is a new contender for notoriety -- MTS1, as Alexander Kamb and his colleagues refer to the multiple tumor- suppressor gene they have just discovered. "Multiple" refers to the fact that defects in this gene can cause many kinds of cancer, including melanoma, lung, breast and brain tumors. In fact, functional copies of MTS1 may be missing in more than 50% of all human cancers...
...trillion dollars in mortgages is now bound up in mortgage-backed securities, up from zero two decades ago. All told, there's a huge speculative overlay on stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the underlying." These abstract concoctions are floating over the real world of stocks, bonds, corn and hogs in the same way that the island of Laputa, that fanciful domain of theorizers and stargazers, floated over real towns and villages in Gulliver's Travels...
...result is that if we want to supply the campus with recycled paper (and by that I refer not to the "recycled" paper so labeled under lax regulations, but rather to paper with a considerable post-consumer waste content), it is not possible to make volume deals which would both reduce our cost and improve the market by generating sizable demand. President Rudenstine has made the environment a test case for interschool cooperation at the University, but to be effective he must expand this cooperation beyond the curriculum...