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...potential of their actions, or if they had other intentions than to leave the sukkah standing precariously--the injury they could have caused cannot be ignored. The fact that there was no visible, emotional message does not mitigate the incident; to the contrary, intentionally creating danger and leaving no signal is far more hateful and pernicious...
...problem with Political Correctness in all its pro, anti and anti-anti variations is that as the debate, as it exists now, is not an intellectual discourse. The confusion with the names of these groups should be enough to signal that this is not a debate substantially about issues--at least that's not what everyone talks about. Somewhere along the line, the ideas of PC, if there ever were any, got lost. Nobody talks about the literary canon anymore, or about Eurocentric ideas...
...death might signal an end of an era. It will inspire a lot of reflection about jazz, where it is, where it is going," said Assistant Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, who teaches the popular course, Literature and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music...
...only one succeeds. The instant it tunnels its way past the egg's outer layer, an electric charge fires across the membrane and a signal from the sperm causes the eggshell to snap shut, blocking entry to any remaining contenders. The successful seed then releases its tightly coiled package of DNA, which fuses with the egg's own DNA and sets in motion a series of genetic events that culminate, nine months later, in the birth of a new human being...
...dramatic effect, and not all eggs emitted even this weak chemical signal. But when the researchers correlated the results, they discovered a startling pattern: only eggs that emitted the "come hither" message were successfully fertilized. "This indicated to us that attraction may indeed be a key process in fertilization," says Michael Eisenbach at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. Now Eisenbach is trying to find out whether this phenomenon could be exploited to help treat the most stubborn infertility cases...