Gays and lesbians, the briefs contend, may once have been treated poorly but today are hardly powerless.
Some children, the researchers contend, may be getting by without welfare because their parents have found work.
The difficulty of counting individual holes, the authors contend, may encourage political thinkers to consider a philosophical dilemma known as the voter's paradox.
Mr. Lee said his office has intervened to keep the city's taxi regulators from banning the device, which the regulators contend may be viewed with suspicion by passengers.
A former Italian culture minister, Francesco Rutelli, says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.
But those signs of his generation, Mr. Kilpatrick contends, may also help explain why seven investigators from the state attorney general's office and the state police are digging into his life.
Mr. Bronner said the turnaround plan would ultimately make US Airways into a viable competitor to low-fare carriers, which, he contends, may beat US Airways on cost, but cannot compete in scope.
While cell death is hardwired into every organism's DNA, much of the infirmity that comes with advancing years is from an accumulation of molecular insults that, experts contend, may to some degree be prevented, even reversed.
Mr. Mueller, who is 29, and Mr. Lys, who is 30, received a patent this month for a digital lighting technology that they contend may ultimately replace the conventional lighting that has been around in one form or another -- from incandescent to halogen -- for more than a century.
