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Words to live byRecent revelations that all people are more than 99.9 percent genetically identical has proved that race has almost no biological validity. Yet geneticists' claims that race is a phony construct have not rung true to many nonscientists -- and understandably so, said Vivian Ota Wang of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda. "You may tell people that race isn't real and doesn't matter, but they can't catch a cab," Ota Wang said. "So unless we take that into account it makes us sound crazy." Subscribe Buttons                    | |
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Georgie Bush put the brakes on the levee construction despite warnings that the levee upgrades were critical. Bush cut the funding, the critical work never finished due to lack of funds, New Orleans drowned. It was precisely Norquist's tactic of cutting funds until government was unable to function that led to the levees breaking.