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The Mystery of the Netanyahu Disaster, and a Possible Explanation - The Atlantic
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grid circuits as hospitals, kept their heaters running the whole time. 2. But this explanation begs the question
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Like bag screening for all subway passengers.) There is a bureaucratic/political explanation for this
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powerful and disturbing part of Bilmes's analysis is the explanation of why
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send it back to where it came from.” On its face, the explanation makes no sense. Why
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Secondary characters that seem somewhat important vanish entirely in the latter half without explanation. (If you tuned in
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federal level with pharmaceutical companies. Indiana University's Aaron Carroll offers a more thorough explanation of how
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more and more jobs have become desk jobs. Economists have sought a satisfactory explanation ever since that change
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taking their lead. See the adulation in headlines like “ Louis C.K.'s Explanation of Why
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saw a similar ad. Unlike Jean, I didn't have a good explanation for why
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is, the scene served mostly to give us the longest explanation to date
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press secretary has become rarer, and moved off camera. Asked for an explanation, Steve Bannon said, “Sean
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the mainstream credibility he’s accumulated since his days railing against “race mixing” pseudonymously. One explanation for the
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police bust felt like watching a golf tournament on Mars. The first explanation is simplest: Smartphones didn
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The significance of the nod at the earlier show needs no explanation. The moment
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ago, a local newspaper in South Carolina reported the police explanation for the
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with journalists and programmers who explored its listings square with the basic explanation in the
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of their identity, and people who don’t?” He stressed that his potential explanation was untested, but I
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consumption of infinite information facilitates short cycles of indignation. Rubenstein's second explanation was far more thought
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the " prepositional- because." Or the "because-noun . " You probably know it better, however, as explanation by way of
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Elizabeth Holmes was trending during her federal criminal trial because, according to Twitter’s explanation of the
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make it all less egregious. I wonder how a police officer would treat that explanation if a non
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officer asked him why he was traveling, and at first seemed satisfied by his explanation. But he quickly changed
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2013 A.D. Ian Morris This may be a surprising statistic, but the explanation for it
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a 2012 study by the global-health organization Ipas. The only explanation “was the mass
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the future of Westeros, I still don’t know. But it provides further explanation—other than the
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the brain, although the exact role is debated. And yet as an explanation of consciousness
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By blocking the URL of a New York Post story without explanation, the company
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influential programmer and an enviably talented writer . His talk is a patient explanation of how
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The nature of that “doing to us” needs a sensible explanation, though. Even if it
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to-day as the only naturalistic hypothesis which contains any principle of explanation of progressive
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today, were keen to aligning company interests. 'YE DAMNED WHALE' The standard explanation for the
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safe to endorse, perhaps, because it has already been neutered. The most charitable explanation of her
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or other macro-level explanations. But, as Occam’s razor might suggest, the real explanation for a
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military buildup and escalating rhetoric. At the core of each explanation lay a troika
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post-war America with a fierce dialectical intelligence that sets up then knocks down explanation, refereeing complexity in
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products of civilizations dizzyingly different from ours -- is remarkable, and demands an explanation. When Europeans went to
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diet, and even gut infections, but none has emerged as the sole explanation. That is a
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in decline. The struggles of legacy news organizations have no simple explanation. Trust in the
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and with much heavier rainfalls [because of that ocean heat].” This also suggests an explanation for one
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it can sell them as business intelligence. But market coercion isn’t a sufficient explanation. More so, the
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U.S. policy. Negotiating Leverage: Jake Tapper at ABC News steps in with an alternative explanation. Netanyahu's issue, he
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a follow-up to Pinker’s article, inviting researchers to tweet an explanation of their
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obsessive and meticulously persuasive 20,000 words of “ The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of ‘The
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face of the facts, and Mark Peterson a clear explanation of how
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just a listing of the books I like; it's an explanation of why
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So why does the U.S. put up with Saudi Arabia? The simplest explanation, of course
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a 1750 Spanish shipwreck that they claim is a plausible origin event.) An alternative explanation, Delsol told me, could
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Dying The oldest baobabs are collapsing, and there’s only one likely explanation. By Ed Yong A
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caution and proved to be friendly (a term requiring no explanation). Their chief, Massasoit, was
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Day into law. (According to Stars and Stripes , a competing explanation —that the stalemate
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civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria since January 2017. The explanation lies partly in
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the features of the external world. How? The relatively simple explanation found in neuroscience
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advance screenings—a fact that became public when the paper published an explanation last Friday. Within days
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a scientist is trying to understand a natural phenomenon that has eluded explanation for decades
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inclusion of WWII era Japanese Class-A war criminals is mentioned with no explanation of the
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really great … helping those that are hungry. It was moving, and it was an explanation of the
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and they don’t necessarily have to be connected. There could be one explanation for why
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And few deliberately racist policies in American history have lacked for an explanation of why
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pattern that was qualitatively similar.” But there was also, he said, a second, “scarier” explanation for the
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aspect of this needs little analysis, but a lot of explanation: How did Israel’s
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Special Counsel regulations require that I provide you with “a description and explanation of instances
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college students fail to perform as well as their white counterparts, the explanation often has less to
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just shy of 130 million. Click through for a thoroughly detailed explanation of how
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partner,” Dr. Mantissa Shout, but the gay bishop of New Hampshire’s explanation to the
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emitted by the sun. None of them fit. The best explanation, they found, was a
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rising prices at the supermarket checkout are a problem with no simple explanation. But Democratic hopes may
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left Americans feeling once again that there were differences worth voting for. Kazin's explanation is plausible. Populism thrives
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prominent in the eyes of contact-wearers, offering a possible explanation for why
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in Washington. According to Haub and others, there is no single explanation for the
"The Economics of the Colonial Cringe," about The Economist magazine; Washington Post, 199
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Asia. "The intriguing thing is, it shows that market forces really were the explanation!" he exclaimed in
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taking their lead. See the adulation in headlines like “ Louis C.K.'s Explanation of Why
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is, the scene served mostly to give us the longest explanation to date
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saw a similar ad. Unlike Jean, I didn't have a good explanation for why
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wanted to here elaborate on it, both because my original post was pretty light on explanation (I assumed -- I think
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wondered. Should I have taken more prenatal vitamins? Eaten better, worked less? There would be no explanation, at least not then
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lands valued only for their oil. Without acknowledgment of these factors, no explanation of the
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federal level with pharmaceutical companies. Indiana University's Aaron Carroll offers a more thorough explanation of how
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Art of the Steal Entertainment / Michael Slenske Incumbent-Protection Acts Campaign-finance reform—an explanation Politics / P. J. O
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working class are going without marriage—a form of social support. Any explanation of the
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state. Rice, who has been criticized for her promoting a now-disproven explanation for the
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to go "on the Pill," as they say. I remember clearly my physician's explanation of how
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unsolicited Chinese seeds sent Americans into a panic. Writer Chris Heath has discovered an explanation that many, including the
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officer asked him why he was traveling, and at first seemed satisfied by his explanation. But he quickly changed
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Secondary characters that seem somewhat important vanish entirely in the latter half without explanation. (If you tuned in
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of their identity, and people who don’t?” He stressed that his potential explanation was untested, but I
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more and more jobs have become desk jobs. Economists have sought a satisfactory explanation ever since that change
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The significance of the nod at the earlier show needs no explanation. The moment
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weapons to the Syrian Kurds of Kobani. By way of explanation, especially to a
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to giant mammals everywhere. Keeping the studio signal from peaking 'Mondo's lay explanation of what
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bigger benefit, or maybe it just makes the creature feel good. Certainly our conscious explanation for why
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of a letter from the county of Maui saying, without explanation, that our property taxes
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camping vacation to celebrate. As the game begins, you're standing, without explanation, somewhere in the
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of class struggle. Ideology is only part of the story, though. Another explanation is found in
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than on an impersonal market that made one's work redundant? Paranoia provides not only an explanation but also a
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and Stuffed Animals and Grow Up Already!” But the most popular explanation seems to be
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seem like they might be factors too. But there’s a simpler, more straightforward explanation that somehow, despite its
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petals in shallow graves. So, here we have not just a plausible explanation for language
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were significant racial disparities in health. But these scholars offered a new explanation for them