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...there has been no outrage over Harvard-Yale T-shirts until now. Why? Perhaps because in the past students recognized that these shirts are made without malicious intent (the shirt in question was sold by a humor magazine). Or perhaps because political correctness continues to shift from being a tool to correct egregious obscenity into an end in itself...
...right, a focused group discussion (the original name for the technique) can be quite potent. Asking a presidential candidate to run a campaign without a focus group is like asking a physician to reach a diagnosis without a stethoscope. Candidates should view a focus group as a simple tool, not a murky crystal ball requiring a wizard to decipher it. Gary Blackton Portland, Oregon, U.S. Klein argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws...
...stem cell research to abortion, President George W. Bush has banned federal funds from supporting the production of more usable stem cell lines—the collections of undifferentiated cells that are so valuable to stem cell researchers. This frustratingly provincial attitude to what could be the next great tool in modern medicine has frozen this avenue of scientific inquiry within the United States...
Maybe. But in dozens of interviews in seven states last week, TIME found that while many students are discussing the draft, few say they will decide their vote on the issue. "The draft is just being used as a tool by Democrats to get Bush," says Kirsten Steffey, a senior at Drake University in Iowa who plans to vote for Kerry. "It's just a distraction from issues I'm more concerned about." Hope as Democrats might, an Election Day boost for Kerry remains, like the draft itself, merely hypothetical. --By John Cloud. With reporting by Paige Bowers/ Atlanta, James...
...school” Reds selected him in the second round, paid him $725,000 and sent him to rookie ball. Even today—even for teams like DePodesta’s Dodgers and Epstein’s Red Sox—statistics are only a tool. What scouts see still matters a lot more than Moneyball fanatics realize. The scouts are still the gatekeepers...