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...percent of test-takers on standardized assessments. Summers said the evidence for his speculative hypothesis that biological differences may partially account for this gender gap comes instead from scholars cited in Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s bestselling 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature...
...Five years later, Li's vision?or at least a less grandiose reincarnation of it?may be validated after all. Sixteen months ago, his phone company (rebranded PCCW after the purchase) started offering Hong Kong residents who subscribe to its broadband Internet access a slate of pay-TV channels delivered to their TV sets over the phone lines. Called NOW Broadband TV, the service has made surprisingly rapid inroads, reaching more than 420,000 households?35% of the Hong Kong pay-TV market?in its first year of operation. It took I Cable, Hong Kong's sole cable-TV provider...
...lottery, 111 different options, for which the voter can cast one vote. This list comprises 75 parties, 9 coalitions and 27 individuals. It ranges from mega coalitions like the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), comprising the major Shiite religious parties and scores of independents grouped together on a single slate at the discreet behest of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to individuals who have put their own names on the form in the hope they can achieve the approximately 44,000 votes nationwide that will be needed to gain a seat in the 275-member National Assembly...
Against Cornell, though, the Crimson rewarded Grumet-Morris for the clean slate with a 1-0 victory. The senior now has seven shutouts in his career, leaving him just two shy of Harvard’s record...
...desirable (from Washington's point of view) than a trusted friend such as Allawi. The national assembly that will be chosen in January's vote will elect a new interim government, before getting down to the task of drafting a new constitution within nine months. And the strongest electoral slate right now looks to be the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of Shiite religious parties and independents assembled under the discreet auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (who has also declared voting a religious duty for Iraq's Muslim faithful). While some leaders of that slate sought this week...