It's a federal holiday today so you can look forward to a whole lot of soft news: predictions, explanations, funny videos that serve no real purpose and, my favorite, lists.
For example, Carruthers suggests that if someone in Nisbett and Wilson's famous 1977 study confabulates "I thought this pair was softest" as an explanation of her choice of the rightmost pair of stockings, she errs not only about the cause of her choice but also in ascribing to herself the judgment that the pair was softest.
Part of the explanation for soft drinks' effect, the editorial said, may be that the body has trouble adapting to such intense concentrations of sugar taken in liquid form.
What could account for this softer turn?The first explanation is a shift in the intellectual debate that shapes the views of Germany's policy elite.
While conspiracy theories abound over this sudden soft-pedaling, the simplest explanation is that the Bush administration is caught in something of a vise between salvaging the progress it has made with Sudan in recent years -- most notably the north-south peace settlement that American diplomats were instrumental in forging -- and the risk of losing it all by pushing too hard on Darfur.
There is no acceptable explanation why the soft palate escapes getting either stomatitis nicotina lesion or carcinoma in reverse smokers.
When using an antero-lateral approach in obese or very muscular patients, the broach and stem have a tendency to be pushed anteriorly by the soft tissue, thus providing an explanation for sagittal stem malalignment.
I tried to concentrate on Mr. Tsao's rather refreshing soft-sell approach and sober explanation of the project.
The Met's defenders say the explanation for its soft-peddling is not conspiracy but capacity: it had better things to do with its time than worry about naughty journalists intercepting tittle-tattle.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers sharply disagreed Sunday over whether and to what extent the Obama administration soft-pedaled its initial public explanation of the Sept. 11 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
These reviews contain explanations of the soft spot, surface stress, steady-state, and vesicle supply center models.
