• Whether the rock varnish is rich in manganese, and whether nature or past or present life created it, are questions that could be tackled by two U.S. rovers and one European lander that are scheduled to reach the red planet in 2003 and 2004.

    CNN: Researcher: Mars rock varnish hints of life

  • The OPA, explains Anderson, preserves the authority of the Feds to impose additional fines and penalties (whether criminal or civil in nature) for any other violation of law.

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  • Oxford researchers writing in the journal Nature hope now to establish whether genetic tests can help in making early diagnosis.

    BBC: Study identifies 'many more' autism genes

  • The issue over whether the exit fee was punitive in nature was never a point of contention.

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  • We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.

    WSJ: May 21 and the Enduring Appeal of the Apocalypse

  • The two lapses, though unconnected and different in nature, have raised the question of whether customers can really trust the basic idea behind the cloud that you can buy computing services from the internet, just like gas or water from a utility (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Cloud computing's growing pains

  • So whether it is our hopeless good nature that wishes to believe in the altruism of the free gift giver (unlikely) or our burning desire to receive something-for-nothing (more likely), the freebie-seeking thread is so persistent in us that the theme remains a constant in money and life.

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  • She said the judges will likely ask highly technical questions on Monday, to determine how much human ingenuity is required to cleave a gene, and whether the protein sequences named in the Myriad patents are truly works of nature.

    FORBES: Big Question For Supreme Court: Can You Patent A Gene?

  • It's crucial because for many people, the nature of that "veto" is a key factor in whether they embrace, go along with, or downright object to this policy.

    BBC: Soft launch for the soft opt out

  • There are investment professionals with multiple Ivy League degrees, people who wrote PhD theses on nuclear fusion or fractal patterns in nature, who have been lured to Wall Street to estimate whether or not a knock off version of Scrabble called Words with Friends will grow to 65 or 65.2 million users by September.

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  • Such is human nature, and we can see it in many areas of society, whether in decisions about medical care or environmental conservation.

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  • The National Labor Relations Board looks at indicators such as the nature of the operation and whether the same workers are performing the same jobs in the same facilities.

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  • But true to her terrier nature, she can be a bit mischievous, and no telling whether best in show judge Michael Dougherty will put up with such antics in his ring.

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  • The Justice Department said it examined the nature of Abu Ghaith's alleged conduct and whether charges would best be served in federal court or through a military commission.

    CNN: Bin Laden's son-in-law to be in New York courtroom

  • Some have expressed doubt about whether Jones can recover from this latest setback, but the combative Welshman says quitting is not in his nature.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | England | Jones hopeful of return for Ashes

  • And where authorities formulate policies based on idealized human nature rather than real life, one cannot expect adequate measures to be adopted, whether in terms of general awareness-raising, safe-sex education, outreach to high-risk groups or needle-exchange programs.

    CNN: MAPPING A SOCIAL SCOURGE

  • It's just in the nature of things that this is going to rise and consequently lead to speculation about whether the league is figuring him out and so on.

    WSJ: Why Matt Harvey Is Not Dwight Gooden

  • But what I was intending more to talk about was how we deal with the darker sides of our nature, and the fact that we all have tremendously destructive power in our hands, whether it's by physical violence or words against somebody or manipulating something.

    CNN: 'Iron Giant': What if a gun had a soul?

  • Anyone out of this field, in normal" waking state" consciousness, manipulating nature, "playing the Creator" whether through genetic engineering or developing new technologies, forms of government, health care, agriculture etc. etc. is only a fool and the consequences of his actions have the possibility to have devastating effects for all life on earth with their apparent or hidden destructive capabilities.

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  • It's crucial because the nature of that "veto" is, for many people, an important factor in deciding whether they support the policy or not.

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  • Whether he believes what he says or not and there are reasons to believe his barbs are Machiavellian in nature, simply a way to get the upper hand on his rival is rather immaterial.

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  • But even if he did not purposefully mislead people about the nature of the threat from Saddam Hussein, he is still in danger, almost regardless of whether Iraq now becomes a prosperous democracy or peace breaks out in the Middle East.

    ECONOMIST: Britain's beleaguered prime minister

  • "Given the disclosure in yesterday's appeal hearing of further incidents of a similar nature in other competitions, we are awaiting the full documentation from ERC to enable us to review whether there is further action the RFU needs to take against the club, its current or former officials, on those other incidents, " the statement continued.

    BBC: Richards ban to extend worldwide

  • But after allowing the fullest weight to these pleas, it still remains undeniable that the disavowal or the discountenancing of our diplomatic representatives in remote places (whether they be naval men or civilians) is a practice fraught with danger of the gravest nature, and should only be done in the rarest cases and on the clearest grounds.

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