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Hold goes against the grain of popular assumptions about Democrats and taxes; but it doesn't need to convince completely.
There, clustering of gene expression profiles was used to identify grain filling genes and their transcription factors from 21,000 rice genes.
As Christopher Hitchens pointed out simply and clearly in his great (and much-hated, and banned) book (and film, too, though I haven't seen it) on Mother Theresa, it's one thing to say you have this long-standing religious belief and tradition and you want to stick to it out of devotion to your faith, but when you are not only a) blindly encouraging poverty-stricken masses to breed like rabbits, but also b) actively stopping, I mean, going out of your way to directly oppose, the efforts of those courageous souls who are trying to make sure those people can get a handful or two of grain and maybe a few ounces of clean water to wash the parasites out of their underwear every day.
Of course, any analysis of individual SAT results must be taken with a grain of salt.
One important grain of salt that the LAT waits until the 32nd paragraph to sprinkle: HMOs still can (and the implication is, will) prevent patients from suing under the bill by requiring their agreement to binding arbitration as a condition of treatment.