The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

研究人员还承认，在一些领域中，作为一个概念，种族可能在科学研究中仍然有用：作为一个政治和社会变量，而不是生物学变量。

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Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

想象这样的一个世界：建造最高的摩天大厦不再是一场高度竞赛，而是一个关于能储存太阳能更多的竞赛。

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"They're making a statement about their own race, about where they come from, who they are," says Wong.

“他们正在表明他们的种族，他们来自哪里还有他们是谁，”王先生说。

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is.

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There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

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Allegations of marital infidelity have livened up the governor's race in South Carolina, where a field of Democrats and Republicans is vying to replace Republican Governor Mark Sanford.

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An instance, then, where race-bred systems find their way into family cars?

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Should the sport move away from Europe, its creative heart would almost certainly stay in the crescent of south-east England where most race teams are clustered, and where Indy cars are also developed.

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The community even has its own bike race, the defiantly non-competitive Tour de Lopez where contestants race for burgers rather than a yellow jersey during the last weekend in April each year.

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