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...Bees do it. But dandelions don't. The prodigious spread of these winsome weeds underscores a little-appreciated biological fact. Contrary to human experience, sex is not essential to reproduction. "Quite the opposite," exclaims anthropologist John Tooby of the University of California at Santa Barbara. "From an engineer's standpoint, sexual reproduction is insane. It's like trying to build an automobile by randomly taking parts out of two older models and piecing them together to make a brand-new car." In the time that process takes, asexual organisms can often churn out multiple generations of clones, gaining a distinct...
...From the standpoint of the United States they couldn't have been more satisfactory," Baker said...
...American politics." Instead, the Edsalls contend, considerations of race permeate voter attitudes toward such issues as taxation, equal opportunity, public safety and moral values. Racism alone, they say, fails to explain why large numbers of white, formerly Democratic voters have defected to the G.O.P. Worse yet, from the Democratic standpoint, blasting the defectors as bigots instead of exploring the complicated reasons for their disaffection only angers them. "Democratic liberals' reliance on charges of racism guarantees political defeat," the Edsalls write, "and . . . guarantees continued ignorance of the dynamics at the core of presidential politics...
Wideman read a story called "The Newborn Thrown in the Trash Dies." The story, told from a baby's standpoint, kept the audience in a chilling silence...
Internally, the people of this state are going to have to decide what their priorities are. They've indicated that the most urgent from their standpoint is education. And I don't disagree with that. Education needs reform so that we can have a competent and productive work force. That's true here; that's true nationwide...