Word: explainers
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...think people are taking more time to plan their careers these days, and medical schools may be valuing some postgraduate experience more than they used to, so the increase in alumni applicants may not be hard to explain," Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said in an e-mail message...
This dual identity may explain why commentators have had such a hard time pinning Lieberman down ideologically. Within hours, Gore was said variously to be moving towards the center with his selection and to be placating his party's left-wing base. The senator's record has inspired very different interpretations. Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun magazine, groused that Lieberman was "bad for the Jews and bad for America" because of his conservative stances on school vouchers and Social Security and his hawkish enthusiasm for the military. And Lieberman is unquestionably conservative--for an ethnic Jew. Meanwhile, some...
...funding. He says he did that because of his fears about budget deficits, but Democrats were shooting back last week that those fears didn't prevent him from supporting Reagan's massive military-spending increase. By the end of last week Cheney was also fumbling for a way to explain his opposition in 1986 to a call for the release of Nelson Mandela from a South African prison. And he has been mostly silent on why he was one of only 21 House members who voted against a bill to regulate armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets, then one of just...
...bottle," she reportedly told her husband. The birth of his twin daughters also did a lot to steady him. The collapse of oil prices and the sobering effect of a near death experience in business did too. But all the stories of personal growth still don't explain how he managed to change his whole attitude about his father, his legacy, his own gifts, his ability to measure up. For that explanation, for the birth of W. the politician, you have to look...
...cells. Instead they're trying to figure out how this cell growth can be harnessed to treat everything from epilepsy to stress to depression. Some have observed that during stress, for example, neurogenesis in the learning center of the brain in several animal species slows considerably--which may help explain depressive episodes that accompany stress...