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However, the ease with which The Bell Curve assumes this guise may be as sobering as the book itself.
Alan Zelicoff, a scientist at the Federal Center of National Security and Arms Control at Sandia National Laboratories, takes a harder line: "It is a sobering, not so reassuring demonstration of the inadequacies of the U.S. detection network for emerging diseases."
It's a bit sobering to read that the WP 's political dean, David Broder, refuses to bury Newt Gingrich's career in public life.
Whether it is a process of being captured by the China hands at the State Department or the sobering effects of real power, no American president since Nixon has dared to lean hard on China.
With the papers relentlessly rah-rahing over the latest exploits of the home team, often, amazingly, on the front page, it's sobering to take in the NYT op-ed on the rampant criminality of professional football players.