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Before long, a sea of psychedelic ads flooded the nation, urging consumers to "break away from the silent majority" or even to "impeach Miss America."
The WP coverage is silent about these wrinkles as well.
Most of the other candidates have tried to tread the middle ground: The Bush and Gore camps have said they will stay silent on the issue because it is a legal matter and up to the courts, not the executive branch.
This test relies on the assumption that functionally constrained protein-coding sequences should exhibit significantly lower rates of evolution in amino-acid-encoding nucleotide sites (typically first and second positions in a codon) relative to silent sites (typically third positions in a codon).
Quantitatively, this leads to the prediction that the ratio of the average rate of amino-acid substitution per site (K a ) relative to the average rate of silent substitution per site (K s ) for functionally constrained coding sequences should be significantly less than 1 [ 21].