Word: proofing
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...party investigation and recommended that Michigan not renew its contracts with the company, which expired on Jan. 1. We can’t help but express skepticism about the logic used by Michigan to end its contract with Coke. Both its process and its weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power to conduct independent investigations on its own, the DRB was reduced to entertaining the accusations and counter-arguments from all parties in order to divine the truth about allegations. The very difficulty of this method of establishing facts...
...browsers as a reminder that the police are patrolling cyberspace too. Such candor, however, did not play well with Netizens. PONDBLOG said, "China is trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life in a lawless frontier, cyber or otherwise...
MARIJUANA The so-called demon weed turned out to be a lot less devilish than advertised. The popular image of the goofy, smoky slacker notwithstanding, a 2003 study in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society found that even among regular users, there is no proof that pot causes irreversible cognitive damage. Memory does get cloudy, and learning new information does get harder, but those effects fade if the user does kick the habit. The drug may also diminish libido and fertility. (So much for its promised free-love properties.) And as with any intoxicating chemical, pot use can become...
Keeping track of Kim Jong Il on his secret trips outside North Korea is a bit like trying to detect a subatomic particle: proof of his passing can be gleaned only from disturbances in his wake. Witness last week's surge in speculation when Kim was said to be visiting China, stopping in several cities before making his way to Beijing where it was thought?maybe?he might discuss the future of his nuclear-weapons program with Chinese leaders...
...with a $25 million reward at stake, Coleman says, "I like to have some proof." According to law enforcement and military sources, the Egyptian government has provided the U.S. with DNA from Zawahiri's brother, who is languishing in an Egyptian prison. That gives U.S. intelligence a scientific means to positively identify the fugitive Qaeda leader...