Word: validator
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INAUGURATION, INC. What's a big event without the product tie-ins? Korbel has created a special Inaugural champagne, left; Washington's Ritz Carlton Hotel is serving presidential-seal desserts; drivers can purchase one of two commemorative license plates, though neither is valid in any state...
...many scientists--and science teachers--don't think there is any valid criticism. Sure, some 350 scientists have signed a declaration challenging evolution. But many tens of thousands of scientists reject I.D.'s core argument--that evolution can't produce complex structures. Take the eye. I.D. theorists say it could not have evolved bit by bit because a bit of an eye has no survival value; it would never have been passed on. Biologists see it differently. They say, for example, a primitive, light-sensing patch of skin--a forerunner of the retina--could help animals detect the shadows...
...help explain why Harvard needs to put forth extra effort to encourage women interested in science and to hire women as science professors. This is not an excuse for the low representation of women on the faculty. Quite the contrary. Furthermore, the possibility that the innate differences hypothesis is valid opens up more avenues for research into how to encourage women to pursue science and support those who choose to do so—exactly Summers’ stated goal in appearing at the conference and consistent with, if not essential to, his responsibilities as Harvard president...
...always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly and offer them a chance to convert to Islam." He contends that bin Laden, by making his warnings very explicit, has "done everything that's required" so that, in his mind, "the criticisms he got after 9/11 won't be valid this time around." Adds Scheuer: "I think what he's done is clearly set the stage for a large attack...
...Gospel. You need a congregation to truly contemplate the event. Even among congregations inclined toward the most politically progressive analysis of Scripture, when the angel in their pageants intones, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord," valid issues of Christianity's relationship to empires (past and present) recede; hearts hear a simple joyous proclamation of salvation...