"(Senate Democratic leader) Tom Daschle will not be a natural ally of President Bush, " says Earl Black, a political scientist and presidential scholar at Rice University.

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Dr Ed Chi, a scientist from the Palo Alto Research Center in California and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, co-created the technology that will help judges to make a more accurate call.

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"We compared what you see in these galaxies with what you see in the field galaxy population, other galaxies at the same epoch and distance, and there is a stark difference - far more star formation and black hole growth, " the Cambridge University scientist and Royal Society research fellow explained to the BBC News website.

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Ron Walters, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, thinks the phenomenon of white voters misrepresenting their views about black candidates to pollsters isn't extinct, but he's sure it will play a smaller role this year.

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Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.

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