i*****s
发帖数: 4596 | 1 2012-08-02 02:18 AM
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Lai Jiang said:
It is a shame to see Nature, which nearly all scientists, including
myself, regard as the one of the most prestigious and influential physical
science magazines to publish a thinly-veiled biased article like this.
Granted, this is not a peer-reviewed scientific article and did not go
through the scrutiny of picking referees. But to serve as a channel for the
general populous to be in touch with and appreciate sciences, the auth... 阅读全帖 |
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c*******n
发帖数: 43 | 2 Facebook Link (Sharing is welcomed and appreciated):
http://www.facebook.com/notes/hao-sun/worlds-acdemic-publishing
World's Acdemic Publishing Giant "No Longer Accepting" Comments and
Scientific Analysis on its Disturbing News Report
Aug. 3rd, 2012, 12:46pm EST|By chemrobin
Akron, OH(WSN)-"It is shame on Nature to publish such low quality article.
It only shows Nature is no longer one of top Journals." Andy Wu, one of the
numerous readers of a news report on the website of Nature, the world's
l... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6210 | 3 Why great Olympic feats raise suspicions
‘Nationality profiling’ could help to catch cheaters
The New Voice
At the Olympics, how great is too great? That question has dogged American
swimmer Michael Phelps after the 27-year-old shattered the world record of
the most decorated Olympian of on Friday. In the wake of that race, some
swimming experts wondered whether Phelps’s win was aided by performance-
enhancing drugs. He has never tested positive for a banned substance and the
International Olymp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2049 | 4 2012-08-03 01:08 AM
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Jingbo Wang said:
Lai jiang's comment (#47487) has been "anomalously" deleted by online editor
. I re-post it here:
Lai Jiang said:
It is a shame to see Nature, which nearly all scientists, including myself,
regard as the one of the most prestigious and influential physical science
magazines to publish a thinly-veiled biased article like this. Granted, this
is not a peer-reviewed scientific article and did not go through the
scrutiny of picking re... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 5 osted on Advocate.com November 18, 2010
Lieberman on DADT: We Have 60 Votes
By Kerry Eleveld
DADT JOSEPH LIEBERMAN X390 GETTY | ADVOCATE.COM
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Thursday that repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell”
as part of the National Defense Authorization Act is no longer a question of
votes, it’s a question of process.
“I am confident that we have more than 60 votes prepared to take up the
Defense authorization with the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ if only
there will be a guarantee of a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 6 Amazon.com
Filmmaker Kirby Dick’s fine balance of documentary rigor and muckraking
returns with Outrage, a blistering investigation into closeted gay
politicians who push anti-gay legislation to hide their own sexual impulses.
You might expect such a documentary to collapse in a heap of strident
accusations, but though the hypocrisy is appalling--particularly when it
squashed funding for AIDS research and contributed to thousands of deaths--
Outrage skillfully avoids hysteria, finding humor and ... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 7 Straight or Gay? Vowels in Speech May Give it Away
Study found that strangers quickly picked up on sexual orientation via vocal
cues
Posted: May 20, 2011
FRIDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- For the average listener, the vowel
sounds in an unfamiliar voice quickly give away the speaker's sexual
orientation, a new study finds.
"I'm not sure what exactly the listeners are responding to in the vowel,"
study lead author Erik C. Tracy, a cognitive psychologist at Ohio State
University, said in a news r... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 8 By Julie Bolcer
Albanyx390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
New York senate Republicans failed to reach a decision whether to hold a
vote on the marriage equality bill in a Thursday morning meeting that
included a visit from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
New York senate Republicans met Thursday morning to continue their
discussion about whether to bring the marriage equality bill to the floor
for a vote, but afternoon remarks from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
, who attended the meeting, ... 阅读全帖 |
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c***y
发帖数: 460 | 9 Agree. Maybe a second-wave survey needs to be conducted and more information
about interviewees needs to be included for more rigorous results. |
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L*******e
发帖数: 2202 | 10 在5.17国际不再恐同日，世界卫生组织的美洲地区办公室(PAHO)发布《关于"治疗"并不
存在的疾病》的立场声明，指出试图"改变同性恋倾向"的"治疗"缺乏医学根据且会导致
严重身心伤害，呼吁各政府、学术机构和媒体揭露这种"治疗"。PAHO服务范围覆盖南、
北、中美洲约50国。
http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i
"Therapies" to change sexual orientation lack medical justification and
threaten health
Washington, D.C., 17 May 2012 (PAHO/WHO) — Services that purport to "cure"
people with non-heterosexual sexual orientation lack medical justification
and represent a serious threat to the health and well... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 11 The Boy Scouts of America has lost its largest corporate donor, Intel, which
announced today that it will stop giving to the group unless it vows to
stop discriminating against gay people.
The Intel Foundation was identified in an investigation by The American
Independent, which was also posted by The Advocate, as having given about $
700,000 in 2010 to the Boy Scouts. It was by far the largest share of
corporate giving, with the Verizon Foundation donating more than $300,000
several big banks r... 阅读全帖 |
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h*******g
发帖数: 2201 | 12 No, if everything follows rigorous evolution homosexuality would have been
distinct, so obviously we don't understand what causes homosexuality and we
need more scientific study on this topic.
Legalization of marriage between same sex couples does not mean
homosexuality is understood comprehensively, you get the rights to enjoy,
but you still have an unclear symptom. Obviously you guys have no interest
nor motivation to find out why, but many people do. Hope the shity politics
in this country wi... 阅读全帖 |
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k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 13 太搞了。这几个人注册了一个假宗教组织，借飞天拉面神教之名，申请加入同志游行。
没被发现，成功混入。在游行中也穿奇装异服，配合别人合影拍照，看上去全无破绽。
散发反同劝教传单，包装成套套的模样散发。
不得不说，挺有创意的。哈哈。
你觉得他们应该被驱逐出同志游行吗？我觉得他们这样走游行我不反对。
http://dailyxtra.com/vancouver/news/anti-gay-activist-slips-pri
Bill Whatcott distributes leaflets under ‘Flying Spaghetti’ group at
Vancouver parade
With his revealing shorts, bright pink hair and a shirt that read “The
Flying Spaghetti Monster Is Gay,” anti-gay activist Bill Whatcott
successfully slipped into Vancouver’s Pride parade on Aug 3.
Whatc... 阅读全帖 |
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M*V
发帖数: 3205 | 14 $20K for Drumsticks? GSA Blasted for One-Day Quarter-Million Dollar Awards
Conference
By John Parkinson | ABC OTUS News
The General Services Administration is back in Congress's crosshairs today
after the GSA's inspector general reported to Congress on another
installment of "egregious waste of taxpayer dollars" at the beleaguered
government agency.
Just months after the agency was rocked when a lavish 2010 Las Vegas
conference was exposed by the agency's inspector general, GSA is now facing
scr... 阅读全帖 |
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f*****0
发帖数: 489 | 15 "Obama never explained this particular contradiction. "
the problem you are having is to assume that the liberal tree huggers can
think rigorously and rationally when history has proven otherwise, quite
convincingly and repeatedly. |
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N********n
发帖数: 8363 | 16 Will Sovereign Debt Defaults Bring the End of Socialism? / James Turk.
December 19, 2009 – Socialism has come to mean many different things to many people, but regardless how it is defined, in the months immediately ahead it will be put to a rigorous test. The test will be visible to everyone as countries around the globe run out of money and confront overwhelming debts that cannot be repaid as well as other wide-ranging financial promises that can no longer be met. In short, the ideological b |
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m*********a
发帖数: 3299 | 17 Will you shut it up if I give you the source of the data? It is in a book. I
see you have no trust to others except you own kind. Do you apply the same
rigor saying something in a post? |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 A Book Review by DICK MORRIS of Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O'Reilly
Published on DickMorris.com on November 21, 2010
Is Obama a socialist? A Muslim? Anti-American? Pro-Palestinian? Or just
a
man who is right sometimes and wrong most of the time? Bill O'Reilly opts
for the second option in his new book Pinheads and Patriots.
Bill rigorously focuses on what President Obama does, not on who he is. He
refuses to speculate about motivation, preferring instead the more solid
ground of ob... 阅读全帖 |
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l******o
发帖数: 2649 | 19 为什么congress和senate对高技术移民这么刁难
对墨西哥移民这么友善？
http://dreamact.info/
看来undocumented是好处了。如果你是documented的，说明更容易被监控控制。
Under the rigorous provisions of the DREAM Act, qualifying undocumented
youth would be eligible for a 6 year long conditional path to citizenship
that requires completion of a college degree or two years of military
service. |
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j***h
发帖数: 4412 | 20 Taxpayers Rank Behind Solyndra Investors
By William McQuillen - Sep 3, 2011 7:00 AM PT
The Obama administration let $385 million in taxpayer support for Solyndra
Inc. take a back seat to funds from new investors in an unsuccessful effort
to keep the solar-panel manufacturer operating.
The Energy Department decided the January refinancing represented the “
highest probable net benefit” for the government, according to a government
document obtained by Bloomberg News. Investors provided the compan... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 21 The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for
biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first
uniform criteria for assessing the necessity of such research. Those
guidelines require that the research be necessary for human health, and that
there be no other way to accomplish it.
In making the announcement, Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the N.I.
H., said that chimps, as the closest human relatives, deserve “special
consideration and ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 By Jamie Glazov
My guest today is George Aaron, an alumnus and graduate of the 1976 class of
the UCLA School of Law. He practices Social Security disability law in
Tarzana, California. He is starting a public campaign for alumni to
withhold donating money to the UCLA School of Law.
Glazov: George Aaron, thank you for taking the time out to talk about your
public campaign.
Tell us about this effort you are starting to convince alumni to withhold
donating money to the UCLA School of Law. It is ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 Downgrade of Debt Ratings Underscores Europe’s Woes
By LIZ ALDERMAN and RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France, Italy
and seven other European countries on Friday, a move that may have more
symbolic than fundamental financial impact but served as a reminder that
Europe’s economic woes were far from over.
Another memory jog came Friday from Greece, the original source of Europe’s
debt troubles. Talks hit a snag between the new Greek government and the
ban... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 “Computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2
can cause”
January 28, 2012 | Posted by Rick Rice
Don Surber is airing some most inconvenient facts:
Global-warming-hoax-cartoon16 actual scientists have joined 1973 Nobel-
winning physicist Ivar Giaever in calling global warming concerns overblown.
In a letter published in the Wall Street Journal today, the scientists
called for everyone to remain calm — and mocked the alarmism by UN
bureaucrats over global warming a... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 大学文科文凭泡沫：过去25年，美国大学就学人数增加了50%，但理工科（科学，技术
，工程和数学）毕业生人数和25年相比几乎没有变化
Tuning In to Dropping Out
By Alex Tabarrok
Rick Scott, Florida's governor, created a firestorm recently when he
suggested that Florida ought to focus more of its education spending on
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and less on liberal
arts. Scott got this one right: We should focus higher-education dollars on
the fields most likely to benefit everyone, not just the students who earn
the degrees. Scott, ho... 阅读全帖 |
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t****1
发帖数: 827 | 26 亲爱的华人同胞们：
美国最高法院正在重新考虑是否需要禁止大学招生考虑种族因素。
美国宪法14修正案“平等保护条款”保证给予每一个人均等机会，而不是针对种族而区
别对待。我们相信，高校招生政策应该符合美国宪法14修正案的精神。很遗憾，亚裔学
生长期以来遭受严重的歧视。“全国高校的经验研究”（NSCE）项目进行了超过9000个
学生采访。普林斯顿大学社会学家托马斯Espenshade进行严格的回归分析，得出如下结
果，此此结果也被新闻媒体广泛引用：如果想被名牌大学录取，在其它条件类似的情况
下，亚裔学生 SAT 成绩必须要比白人高140分，比西班牙裔高280分，比黑人高450分（
总分1600）。(这个分析已经把性别，GPA， 体育等方面的因素考虑在内)
目前已经有41483参与投票，发出我们对大学招生中的种族歧视的抗议。我们
还需要9000多个投票，以显示我们的关注力度。请确保你的配偶，孩子，父母，朋友，
和所有同事能够参与这个请愿。 （如果您是永久居民或者公民， 请参与这项签名请愿
活动，以改变亚洲人被歧视的命运。)
请点击以下的链接参与
http://admin.80-20nj.in... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 April 17, 2012 by Michael Laprarie
This weekend, the AP published what has to be the most slanted, biased,
loaded piece of “journalism” it has ever been my displeasure to read: “
Law Gives Zimmerman Extra Chances In Legal Fight”
MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman persuaded the police not to charge him
for killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, but the prosecutor has accused
him of murder. Soon, armed with unparalleled legal advantages, Zimmerman
will get to ask a judge to find the killing was... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 'Why do so many reporters insist on misquoting, or ignoring, the actual
contents of the “doctrinal assessment” itself?'
by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
That's a rhetorical question... for thinking people:
At the heart of the whole U.S. nuns vs. the Vatican
media storm is the April 18th “doctrinal assessment” in which the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith expresses it concerns about the
theological orientation expressed by the leadership of the Leadership
Conference of Women Religio... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 - NYPOST.com
by Jeff Graham
Tim Tebow takes off his shirt during a rainstorm as he is running on the
SUNY Cortland campus and suddenly its a big deal....Women swooning and the
media fussing and Tebow lamenting the rigors of being famous....
It used to be starting QB Mark Sanchez who was the shirtless wonder
for the JETS, but Tebow is the "it" player. I am looking forward to the
season to see how his rivalry and drama plays out. |
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发帖数: 263 | 30 Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade performed rigorous analyses
on the vast “National Study of College Experience” (NSCE) database and
released the empirical findings in his 2009 book [1]: To receive equal
consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform Whites
by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total
1600).
[1] "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College
Admission and Campus Life" by Thomas Espenshade (Princeton
Unive... 阅读全帖 |
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f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | 32 我一看到丫的如下文字就是一阵恶心。这几个词怎么就必须得用英文了？这是说“我是
智障，谁也别惹我“的意思吗？
“你这个是一个人在自己blog上面post，没有经过rigorous评估“
is |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 33 看这个好了, Romney专门提到了技术移民签证问题. 疤蟆根本没有提到. 哪个候选人对
华人有利一目了然.
5:00 PM - October 15, 2012 by Zak Islam - source: NYTM
Both candidates provide lengthy responses in what they'll do if they become
president.
A New York-based tech group recently sent both Barack Obama and Republican
challenger for the U.S. president position Mitt Romney a letter asking how
their policies would benefit technology startups, with both candidates
providing a lengthy response.
Romney highlighted the fact that he'll r... 阅读全帖 |
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z***e
发帖数: 5600 | 34 Agreed. He simply used rigorous statistical methodology on the same polling
results |
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m********a
发帖数: 1041 | 35 與以往重視簡答題和記憶背誦測驗比較，新的測驗更強調深度分析和創造性問題解決能力
The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more
rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core, which emphasize deep
analysis and creative problem-solving over short answers and memorization.
Last year, under an easier test, 47 percent of city students passed in
English, and 60 percent in math. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 36 No books, no clue at city’s worst school
By Susan Edelman
January 12, 2014 | 4:03am
This principal runs a school of “no.”
Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading
and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers
say.
The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.
“The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.
The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
T... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******s
发帖数: 9926 | 37 再写一篇
Dear XXX,
I am writing to urge you to reject the defective SCA-5. In recent years,
scholars have started to do careful empirical research on whether racial
preferences actually help their intended recipients. When the dispute shifts
from "is it fair?" to "does it work?" — thus changing the focus from
ideology to evidence — open-minded people can make progress toward
consensus.
Much of this new research is on the idea of "mismatch" — on what happens
after a student is admitted to a school fo... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 38 Incest: The Next Frontier in ‘Reproductive Freedom’
January 19, 2015 - 1:03 PM
By J. Matt Barber
Like a plastic Piggly Wiggly bag fluttering about in the alley, those
untethered from God’s natural law are violently tossed to and fro by the
gusting winds of moral relativism. Jenny Kutner is one such Piggly Wiggly
bag. A 20-something assistant editor at Salon.com, she describes herself as
“focusing on sex, gender and feminism.”
By “focusing on sex, gender and feminism,” and as you will soon see, t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 Feminist Criminal Decides to Abort Her Son Solely Because He is Male
Warner Todd Huston February 8, 2015
A revelatory posting by a hate-filled, radical feminist calling herself “
Lana” recently appeared on the extremist website called “Injustice Stories
.” The story ostensibly tells the tale of how “Lana” aborted her baby
because she found out that the child was a boy. “Lana” says she killed her
baby because she didn’t want to bring another male “monster” into the
world. And she is proud of her ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*x
发帖数: 5456 | 40 WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Monday it would again consider
affirmative action at public universities, the third time since 2003 the
issue of race-based admissions has come before the justices.
The court said it would examine admissions practices at the University of
Texas at Austin, which has been at the epicenter of the affirmative action
debate since the 1990s, when a federal appeals court blocked the flagship
campus from considering race until a 2003 Supreme Court decision reinstated
th... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males'
How some university academics make the case for paedophiles at summer
conferences
By Andrew Gilligan
9:10PM BST 05 Jul 2014
"Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the
presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to
have sex with children … Normal males are aroused by children.”
Some yellowing tract from the Seventies or early Eighties, era of abusive
celebrities and the infamous PIE, the Paedophil... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 Poll: Only 40% of Teachers Support Common Core
By Barbara Hollingsworth | August 18, 2015 | 10:34 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) – Less than half of Americans (49 percent) and only 40
percent of teachers now say they support Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Public support has dropped 16 percent since 2013, when 65 percent of
Americans were in favor of the Common Core standards, according to the ninth
annual Education Next poll released Tuesday.
But the greatest change in opinion has been among teachers... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: Vermont替大统令分忧了，要接受难民了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 16 15:37:15 2015, 美东)
On the other side, Democratic Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin condemned the
Republican governors, announcing the state’s support to take in refugees
and noting the U.S.’ “rigorous” screening system.
“The governors who are taking those actions are stomping on the qualities
that make America great, which is reaching out to folks when they’re in
trouble and offering the... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 44 90年代以后就没戏了。很多人把这个归功于90年代GOP通过的最严厉的反移民法案。这
个法案通过后，GOP就和latino说byebye了。
http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2013/10/17/prop187effect/
According to polling data from the California Field Poll, after winning the
presidential election in 1980, former California Governor Ronald Reagan
raised his share of the Latino vote from 35% to 45% in 1984 while carrying
59% of the entire state. Republicans went on to win the Golden state again
in 1988. Since that election, three significant changes have reshaped... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 45 摘一段作者的建议案例
In their book “All That We Can Be” (1996), the sociologists Charles Moskos
and John Sibley Butler describe how the U.S. Army escaped from the racial
dysfunction of the 1970s to become a model of integration and near-equality
by the time of the 1991 Gulf War. The Army invested more resources in
training and mentoring black soldiers so that they could meet rigorous
promotion standards. But, crucially, standards were lowered for no one, so
that the race of officers conveyed no informatio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 46 Sailor12 • 2 days ago
Immigrant Syrian Muslim minors are "allegedly" involved in this incident,
correct? Why wouldn't that be a newsworthy factor for this story,
particularly because of the Obama Administration's repeated assurances that
Syrian refugees would be rigorously screened? All should be interested in
the safety of fellow citizens, and it seems particularly appropriate that
media present these facts. Why would the media not report facts? Isn't it
your job? |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 47 More than 30 tech companies made a commitment to the White House on
Wednesday to track and set workforce diversity goals.
The pledge by companies to make their workforce more representatives of the
public was signed by a number of high-profile companies including Airbnb,
Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium, Pinterest, Spotify, Zynga and
others.
The companies pledged to set specific diversity and hiring goals, and also
to publish the data openly. They further vowed to "invest in partnership... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 49 Alex Berezow and Tom Hartsfield
The Journal of the American Medical Assn. recently published a very unusual
article: a scientific study authored by a sitting president of the United
States. That’s never happened before.
In a sense, it’s cool that President Obama cares enough about science to
want to publish a paper in one of the world’s leading medical journals. But
JAMA has set a bad precedent. The article, on healthcare reform in the
United States, is problematic not only in its content but in... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 494 | 50 好文，非常赞同
After Trump Loses, We Can Build a Sane Republican Party
This week, as we witness the horrifying spectacle of the GOP crowning Donald
Trump as its presidential nominee, we may find solace by anticipating the
positive change that his ill-fated candidacy might actually bring about.
Ever since Trump secured the nomination, influential leaders and
intellectuals on the right who reject him have been working to reimagine the
right as it should be. Under normal circumstances, envisioning a more
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