Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That led to eleventh-hour alterations to accommodate Fundamentalists, who believe God directly created Adam and Eve. The board deleted references to a 1987 Supreme Court ruling and a National Academy of Sciences booklet that oppose giving Darwin and creationism equal weight in science classes. The Californians also omitted this: "There is no scientific dispute that evolution has occurred and continues to occur; this is why evolution is regarded as a scientific fact." But another section asserts, "It is a scientific fact that organisms have evolved through time." The board advises teachers not to suppress part of the curriculum...
...otherwise have been an episodic comedy the true, tragic story of his sister, a diabetic who doomed herself to early death in order to bear a child, and his mother's struggle to come to terms with that choice. It gives the piece the dramatic focus and the emotional weight it requires...
There was little he really could do. Over the years, Kitty had mostly set her own course. Aides remember her as an intimidating figure at the statehouse, where she claimed an office a few doors from her husband's. Often she threw her weight around, berating secretaries or barging unannounced into the Governor's corner office during meetings to ask personal questions. Never did Dukakis rebuke her openly. Usually he withheld delicate information from her. Kitty was too prone to spilling secrets...
...undercutting its supposed morality. Because the play's idealism is old and worn out, it does not affect one as it might have. Thoreau's story--except the sequence about the death of his brother, which is affecting--is not emotionally powerful. The play lacks the emotional or intellectual weight to make it anything more than well done and funny...
...that time, 283 of the participants, all of whom were in good health at the start of the study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...