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"What I'm trying to say here is a bit tricky, because it involves to some extent comparing those Palin supporters to Grandin's neurotic gerbils, and I don't suppose anyone likes being compared to neurotic gerbils. And it probably doesn't help that I'm prefacing this by saying that I mean no offense in comparing them to neurotic gerbils. But I find the comparison illustrative, so here goes."
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"When choosing undergrad research students from my own university, I don't always select the A students. Don't worry -- the hard-working and talented A students are not going without research experiences. In fact, every student who wants such an experience can find an advisor. But sometimes I select a B student who seems to be motivated and smart, but who just doesn't do as well in some classes as some other students."
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""For nearly a century, the widespread interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests that everything is uncertain until it is observed, and that observation inevitably alters reality," says Professor Steinberg. "However, in the 1990s, a technique known as 'interaction-free measurement' seemed to promise the ability to 'see without looking,' as a Scientific American article put it at the time. But when Lucien Hardy proposed that one could never reliably make inferences about past events which hadn't been directly observed, a paradox emerged which suggested that whenever one attempted to reason about the past in this way they would be led into error.""
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"Christopher Guest says that when he was sword fighting with Mandy Patinkin, he started making sword noises with his mouth like a little kid would do when play-fighting because he was so excited to be in a sword fight. Rob Reiner cut the take and informed him that the noises would, in fact, be added in later, so his werenât necessary. "
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To get beyond the anecdotes that dominate headlines in national newspapers and word of mouth in the hallways of many suburban high schools, Lapovsky turned to data. With financial support from the Lumina Foundation for Education, Lapovsky surveyed 750 students in the fall and spring of their senior year of high school about their college options and choices.
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