1 race or 2? That could be the question
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MARTINSVILLE - The owners are new. The track resurfaced. The railroad is relocating. The souvenir haulers have moved. And that&#39;s since April, the last time 63,000 fans watched NASCAR Nextel Cup racing at Martinsville Speedway.
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The ability to use race when assigning students to public schools is on the line in two cases before the Supreme Court on Monday that could produce the most important decision on school desegregation in decades.
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In a comment yesterday on Marc Canter's blog, discussing the race to be the default identity system for the Internet.. "I wouldn&#185;t count out Google, they've got a lot of users, and a lot of money. I think they could probably buy Yahoo, but someone else would have to do the math." Ashkan Karbasfrooshan did the math.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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Both sides in fit vs. fat argument can cite new evidence to back up claims. By ERIC BERGER. HOUSTON -- The obesity debate is about to become even bigger.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Ski racing is not just about timing, it's also about figuring out the trade-off between risk and reward. The higher the stakes, the more tempting it is to roll the dice.
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BARCELONA, Spain  - There is often talk of two Spains, right and left or traditional and modern; the debate will go on for years but one issue was settled long ago.
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The film is either at No 1 or No 2 spot -- depends on how you look at it!
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Nobody's perfect. It might be best to pick your battles.
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Yesterday&#39;s Olympics treated us to the two extremes of athletics, the endurance race which tests the body to its limits, and the heavyweight showdown, the sprint, which is in the mind.
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Many people, including some African-Americans, have long been uneasy with the concept of race-based medicine, in part from fear that it may legitimize less benign ideas about race.
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Having heard the blather or ranting about Red vs. Blue states for some time, I decided that I could check the curious general claim that "Red states are beneficiaries of tax revenue".  Having obtained the data here about year-by-year comparisons of the states, I obtained some results for 2004.  My intent is to identify trends without much partisan bias (BTW, I'm a Nader voter) in an American viewpoint that's not so much grey, but purple.
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But decision sparks more big questions over fairness
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A proposal to eliminate "some other race" as an option on the 2010 census has stirred a furious debate.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1042 3886&fsrc=RSS Looking for the right man SIR â My husband and I enjoyed your article on spousal selection and its finding that women have better choices the higher the ratio of males to females (âA buyers' marketâ, December 15th). But there may be limits to this. We travelled to Alaska ten years ago and read several [...].