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In an opinion segment of New Scientist magazine published in August 2009, reporter Andy Coghlan cited William Rees of the University of British Columbia and epidemiologist Warren Hern of the University of Colorado at Boulder, saying that human beings, despite considering themselves civilized thinkers, are " subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion ... an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.
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In a 20 / 20 segment on his former doctor, Stossel stated his opinion that the TMS treatment " cured " his back pain, although he admitted that he continues to have relapses of pain.
For a segment of Polish public opinion, Communist rule was seen as the lesser of the two evils.
According to the latter, " there is a significant segment of opinion in Germany that wishes to rehabilitate the Nazi past, and the end of the Soviet regime created an atmosphere favorable to the publication of the book.
* Various celebrity commentators offer a raw and uncensored opinion on a pop culture event from each year, extended from the segment devoted to it.
He refused any negotiation with the terrorists, and was sharply criticized for this by Moro's family and by a segment of public opinion.
After the interview segment, Despain does a segment just for him, titled " My Take ", in which he gives his opinion on news from the racing world.
* My Take – A short editorial segment where Despain offers his opinion on a controversial topic in motorsports, usually offering a potentially simple solution to a complex problem.
Andrew Cox contributed a humorous agony aunt segment on Jay and the Doctor's Triple J breakfast show from 2005 until the show ended in 2009 and has also contributed opinion pieces to The Age newspaper.
" Senator Knute Nelson, Republican of Minnesota, responded by enlarging Bolshevism's embrace to include an even larger segment of political opinion: " Then they have really rendered a service to the various classes of progressives and reformers that we have here in this country.
For most of 2007, Holmes ' work for Prime consisted solely of a weekly opinion segment, broadcast Sunday nights as part of Prime News.
Since the 2010 NFL season, Andrew " McLovin " Perloff began hosting a weekly segment called " Against the Grain ," in which he offers a series of short observations about the league that may not reflect popular opinion.
* Rapid Fire is in the third hour of the show ( usually the last segment of the show ) when Erik lets callers fire back at him about all of the topics he's discussed and made his opinion known about on that day.
The show is part of Channel Nine's ' Stimulus Package ' which also includes another light entertainment show, Commercial Breakdown which contains a segment called My Beef with Shane Crawford, a segment where Crawford discusses his opinion on an issue.
News Central was a primetime newscast on Sinclair television stations in the United States, mixing locally produced news with nationally produced news and an opinion segment from Sinclair's Hunt Valley, Maryland studios.
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Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
In November 2011, Morris premiered a documentary short, " The Umbrella Man ," featuring Josiah " Tink " Thompson on the Kennedy assassination, on the opinion page of The New York Times online.
" Allen was an ignorant and profane Deist, who died with a mind replete with horror and despair " was the opinion of Newark, New Jersey's Reverend Uzal Ogden.
They started a student publication, The New Individualist Review, which was the outstanding libertarian journal of opinion for some years.
He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled " China Won't Ever Be the Same ", in which he said that the killings " tore the heart out of a generation that carries the hope for the future of the country ".
In the opinion of jazz historian Ernest Borneman, what preceded New Orleans jazz before 1890, was " Afro-Latin music " similar to what was played in the Caribbean at the time.
Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.
He wrote Hamilton at the New York ratifying convention, stating his opinion that " ratification was in toto and ' for ever '".
The day after Edison died, the New York Times contained extensive coverage of Edison's life, with the only negative opinion coming from Tesla who was quoted as saying:
In 1982 the New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Association issued a statement that in their opinion the Wizard was an authentic living work of art and the City Council appointed him Wizard of Christchurch.
" Gitlow v. New York, greatly expanded Schenck and Debs but established the general opinion of the Court that the First Amendment is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment to apply to the states.
The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".
While Taft stressed that America needed to prevent the New Deal from using the international crisis to extend socialism and dictatorship at home, the German blitzkrieg that quickly defeated France shook public opinion.
( The New York case, Reno v. Shea, was affirmed by the Supreme Court the next day, without a published opinion.
In 1779 Banks, giving evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, had stated that in his opinion the place most eligible for the reception of convicts " was Botany Bay, on the coast of New Holland ".
Because the invasion of the Soviet Union intended to impose the New Order was essentially a war of conquest and extermination, German propaganda efforts designed to win over Russian opinion were, at best, patchy and inconsistent.
Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., in an opinion authored by Justice Owen Roberts.
Notably John added to the text his opinion that Rome ( Old Rome ) and Constantinople ( New Rome ) were on the same level.
In an article written for The New Yorker in 2004, Gary Giddins says he feels that these early critics erred in denigrating Glenn Miller's music, and that the popular opinion of the time should hold greater sway.
* NewYorker. com-' Too Much Information ' ( opinion ) New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg ( December 9, 2002 )
At the time, the New York Times called international public opinion, a superpower to counter the United States.
It became the firm opinion of a number of prominent New Zealanders that the colony ’ s problems were associated with alcohol.
During this holiday he toured a number of archaeological sites in the two countries, coming to the opinion that much of what he had written in The Most Ancient Near East was outdated, and so he went on to produce a new book on the subject, New Light on the Most Ancient Near East ( 1935 ), in which he applied his Marxist-influenced ideas about the economy to his conclusions.
The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.
" They shall pay the amounts, during their respective lives, to the individuals mentioned above, and they shall distribute the balance of the net income of the said Trust Fund to such of the councils of the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA as are located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and as, in the opinion of said Trustees, are performing the most efficient service, the said net income to be used, so far as possible, for the purchase and maintenance of summer camps or training camps in New England for the use of Boy Scouts.
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This version of the magazine printed ill-received opinion pieces on reality TV or video games that confused the traditional readership of the magazine.
In the early days of opinion polling, the American Literary Digest magazine collected over two million postal surveys and predicted that the Republican candidate in the U. S. presidential election, Alf Landon, would beat the incumbent president, Franklin Roosevelt by a large margin.
Peter Garrison, contributing editor for Flying magazine, has said that " In my opinion, however, the most promising engine for aviation use is the Mazda rotary.
Other historians contend that the Mattachine Society between 1953 and 1966 was enormously effective as it published a magazine, developed relationships with allies in the fight for homosexual equality, and influenced public opinion on the topic too.
Rolling Stone, a magazine known for its initial dismissal of the band's music, held a favorable opinion of the album, regarding the release as the group's best effort to date.
Grudging respect began to emanate from the international press: towards the end of 1951 the opinion appeared in Germany's recently launched Auto Motor und Sport magazine that, despite its " ugliness and primitiveness " (" Häßlichkeit und Primitivität "), the 2CV was a " highly interesting " (" hochinteressantes ") car.
Smith was the founder and editor of " South Today ," a journal of fiction and opinion, both literary and political, that was the first magazine in the South to publish stories and articles by black writers.
However, the magazine's initially harsh opinion of the album seems to have softened over time, as they would later place the album at number 298 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, compiled in 2003 while also describing Black Sabbath as " the greatest sludge-metal band of them all ..." The magazine described the album as " the definitive studio relic of Sabbath's golden-hellfire era ( 1970-74 )..."
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year.
Citing difficulties in competing with online news sources to provide unique news in a weekly publication, the magazine refocused its content on opinion and commentary beginning with its May 24, 2009 issue.
It describes itself as " America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion.
Writing for Reason magazine in February 2011, Damon Root expressed the opinion that Barbour supports farm subsidies, corporate welfare, and eminent domain.
The early jet airliners possessed much lower levels of noise and vibration than contemporary piston-engined ones, so much so that in 1947, after piloting a jet powered aircraft for the first time, Wing Commander Maurice A. Smith, then-Editor of Flight magazine, stated ; " Piloting a jet aircraft has confirmed one opinion I had formed after flying as a passenger in the Lancastrian jet test beds, that few, if any, having flown in a jet-propelled transport, will wish to revert to the noise, vibration and attendant fatigue of an airscrew-propelled piston-engined aircraft "
Up until the late 1960s, the magazine had a certain " cachet as the voice of re-invigorated liberalism ", in the opinion of Eric Alterman, a commentator who has criticized the magazine's politics from the left.
With the less predictable opinions, more of them leaning conservative than before, the magazine won the respect of many conservative opinion leaders and 20 copies were messengered to the Reagan White House each Thursday afternoon.
He was editor of the final incarnation of Dublin news and opinion magazine Magill Magazine since its relaunch in late 2004 until its closure in 2009.
In These Times is a politically progressive / social democratic monthly magazine of news and opinion published by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago.
The center also publishes MedicalProgressToday. com, a web magazine about market-friendly health care-related public policies featuring original articles, podcast interviews with health care experts, and opinion forums.
A bi-weekly opinion column began appearing in the New Statesman magazine in 2010.
These organisations continue, in their different ways, the adversarial politics of LM magazine and the RCP, leading some commentators, such as George Monbiot have pointed to apparent entryist tactics used by former RCP members designed to influence mainstream public opinion.
Dietitians ' expertise in nutrition is often solicited in the media — for example providing expert guest opinion on television and radio news or cooking shows, columnist for a newspaper or magazine, or resource for restaurants on recipe development and critique.
** the magazine El País Semanal () previously called EP on fashion, reports and opinion,
An article in the Weekly Standard, an American neoconservative opinion magazine, questioned the cost-effectiveness of Habitat building projects.
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