Monthly Archives: July 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — Many of the olive oils lining supermarket shelves in the United States are not the top-grade extra-virgin oils their labels proclaim, according to a report from the University of California, Davis. Researchers analyzed popular brands and found … Continue reading →

Last December I bought myself a video cassette recorder (VCR) described as "simple to use". In the first three weeks I failed repeatedly to program the machine to record from the TV, and after months of practice I still made … Continue reading →

For example they must make sure they construct measures that are meaningful for each of the cultural or ethnic minority groups being studied. In conducting research on cultural and ethnic minority issues investigators distinguish between the emic approach and the … Continue reading →

The first difference is that a policeman’s real life revolves round criminal law. He has to know exactly what actions are crimes and what evidence can be used to prove them in court.1 He has to know nearly as much … Continue reading →

Social scientists have devoted lifetimes to studying the drives that spur us out of bed in the morning, compel us to work or study hard and spark all manner of human endeavor. Indeed, a 1992 textbook actually documents 32 distinct … Continue reading →

Students, for example, Commission and sell essays with such ease there that online " paper Ihills" devoted to this trade are one of the few dotcom(&Ml#J$£) Business models still thriving.1 With a few clicks of a mouse, a jjtudent can … Continue reading →

Why do words change their meanings? Sometimes this happens because of a linguistic isociation. The word "constitutional" for example is an adjective meaning "roughly for health" . It as long used in the phrase "a constitutional walk" , which was … Continue reading →

My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in … Continue reading →

To explain why some countries grow more rapidly than others or why a country may grow more rapidly during one period of history than another, economists have found it convenient to think in terms of a "production function." This is … Continue reading →

Two distinct types are on the drawing board. The first is a special-purpose lane system, in which certain lanes are reserved for automated vehicles. The second is a mixed traffic system • fully automated vehicles would share the road with … Continue reading →