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Some commentators adopt a stance of racial pessimism because they fear that making concessions to the optimists will breed complacency and inhibit the efforts needed for still further progress.
During this same Congress there were also proposals to adopt the metric system of weights and measures as the official American standard.
In this paper, we have discussed the finding that genomic distributions first take on an exponential appearance and then adopt a power-law behavior after a sufficiently long evolutionary process.
The New York Times fronts the Ecuador story but leads with an exclusive report on the frenzy to adopt health-care legislation.
We have chosen to adopt the Osr nomenclature in this study because it is consistent with the systematic logic (indicative of genus and species of host organism) used in previous genomic studies of LTR retrotransposons and includes the letter 'r' to indicate retrotransposon.