Word: randomizations
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Certainly some of these values and beliefs are carried over from Asia. But the Asians who came to America are nothing like a random sample of the population of their native countries. Those people who are willing to consciously pull up stakes and move across the ocean to improve their lots are obviously exceptionally ambitious. This helps explain the extraordinary proportion of first-generation immigrants of all races who start their own businesses. Education and self-improvement are likely to be important values to such people...
...last month, county water testers in North Carolina, who use Perrier's purity in their labs to gauge local water quality, found that the French product was contaminated with excessive levels of benzene, a solvent used, among other things, to make Styrofoam. The Food and Drug Administration ordered random tests and found similar benzene levels in 13 bottles. FDA officials noted that there was not much danger. Drinking two small bottles of contaminated Perrier a day, they estimated, would increase one's lifetime risk of cancer by only one in a million...
...stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an alarm clock all the time." Nonetheless, in this fast-paced era, professionals may turn on to new ways of combating stress -- especially since the habit will not show up in random drug tests...
...list of contributing factors cited by the University of Illinois' Campus Task Force on Sexual Assault, Abuse and Violence. But the Illinettes, the school's cheerleaders, were hands-down the most conspicuous -- and they may be banned. Reporting that a dismaying 16.4% of women students responding to a random survey said they had been victims of criminal sexual assault, the task force singled out the pompon performances by the 28 cheerleaders as one of the "activities that project women as sexual objects...
...Random House; 353 pages...