Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker contended that the U.S. presence in the western hemisphere must be strengthened, underlining his belief in the importance of maintaining strong relations with Canada and Mexico...
Those facts seem to point to an environmental factor, probably the change to a Western diet. In a test of that conjecture, researchers at Sloan-Kettering, led by Dr. William Fair and pharmacologist Warren Heston, discovered that tumors grew more rapidly in mice fed a high-fat diet than in those on a low-fat diet. And when the animals on high-fat diets were switched to low-fat ones, the growth of their tumors slowed...
...lives in Washington and works in the Senate. In my experience, taciturnity is not a characteristic often found in people who sell real estate, not even in down East Maine, which is the place the people spinning theories about the regional origins of Dole's speech presumably have western Kansas mixed up with...
...years AI researchers have tossed around the question of whether computers might be sentient. But since they often did so in casual late-night conversations, and sometimes in an altered state of consciousness, their speculations weren't hailed as major contributions to Western thought. However, as computers keep evolving, more philosophers are taking the issue of computer consciousness seriously. And some of them--such as Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz--are using it to argue that consciousness is a deeper puzzle than many philosophers have realized...
...more experienced western teams won't be the only challenge for Radcliffe...