The future of race is, indeed, open.
But even supporters worry that by encouraging Brazilians to choose sharp-edged racial identities, quotas will create tensions where none existed before.Brazilians' notions of race are indeed changing, but only partly because of quotas, and more subtly than the doom-mongers fear.
Fortunately, a lot of racist actions are being met with anti-racist retaliations from people of all races; indeed, a (white) Twitter user managed to get the attention of Australia's race discrimination commissioner about said sticker.
Hungary may not be exactly a hotbed of thoroughbred racing; indeed, there is only one significant track in a country with a population of 10 million.
He declined the honor beforehand, explaining that the Mur de Huy was too demanding for his style of racing, as indeed it was.
Mr. Dinkins is in trouble less because of race--indeed, a recent Marist Institute poll showed that most voters agree with him that he is better able to reduce racial and ethnic tensions than Mr. Giuliani would be--than because New Yorkers feel physically insecure in their city.
But Colorado and Illinois were very close races indeed.
Venter's narrative of this race is indeed laden with spin and self-aggrandizement ("What eventually made the difference... is that I led from the front") and lacks the excitement of discovery he expresses well in earlier chapters.
But any attempt by these means to get back to "the origin of language" or to reconstruct the original language of the human race, if indeed there was one, has so far been beyond the reach of science.
Indeed, by use of RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends), analyzing both 5' and 3' ends and then hybridizing the products to whole genome tiling arrays, it was recently demonstrated that, for most of the genes, there are RNAs that extend well beyond known gene borders, often further than three megabases away [ 7].
I am reminded of the trite statement that 'education is no panacea' for ignorance or hate but this is no longer a matter of education, demographics, nationalities, race, or indeed any of the reassuring demographic data with which we soothe ourselves as we try to breed order and insight into disorder and chaos closing in upon us.
