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...word is inappropriately and significantly treated as a singular form, such as in the statement that “the media has a liberal bias.” The idea that “the media” is a single entity is borne to us through the vector of language. If we were concentrating, would we really choose to refer to the totality of mass communication as if it were guided by a single will? Perhaps current usage of “the media” (sing.) is a symptom of the trend towards nation-wide uniformity spearheaded...
...with only seven weeks until the election, the vector of Kerry's campaign is, if anything, entirely uphill. A new TIME survey of 857 likely voters reveals that President Bush has retained the solid 11-point lead he earned during the New York City convention earlier this month. Kerry's support has eroded across almost every demographic group but most notably among women. In a departure from recent patterns, among registered voters, women now favor Bush over Kerry by 45% to 44%, and men are breaking for the President by a lopsided...
Salzman, an environmental activist, writer and lecturer who co-founded the New York Green Party, called Bush a “vector of disease,” blaming him for most of the political and economic problems of the United States...
...there could be an even more ominous disease vector at work?or in flight. For years, the greatest fear of many influenza experts has been the possibility that the H5N1 strain would infect migratory birds. Since huge amounts of virus are shed in bird feces, such an epidemic among migratory birds would mean death raining down from the sky in the form of H5N1 virus. In November and December of 2002, there were numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after...
...courses that the individual has completed and needs to complete. After a brief perusal, advisors could then contact those students whose schedules are suspect—young scholars entering their Junior springs without any cores under their belts or students who signed up for Mathematics 263, “Vector Bundles on Algebraic Curves” without taking any of the prerequisites. And electronic registration will only make true academic consultation easier: once Harvard’s advising system gets the repairs it desperately needs, the age of e-mail will allow advisors and their students to schedule necessary meetings...