• And so it's creating this whole alternate way of having the one-drop rule because now people want to be classified as black.

    NPR: Afro-Brazilian, African-American Ties

  • To be classified as having a preference for a particular form of alcohol, a subject had to report that he drank more than half of his alcohol in this form.

    ECONOMIST: Alcohol and health

  • To be classified as a song, a vocalisation has to contain distinct notes, rather than one sound repeated, as well as motifs and themes that recur from time to time.

    ECONOMIST: Male mice sing when they scent the female of the species

  • "We see Nexium as a significantly better product than Losec or Prilosec but not sufficiently different to be classified as a new remedy, " says Jo Walton, a pharmaceuticals analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.

    FORBES: Another Look

  • To be classified as a planet an object has to orbit the sun, have sufficient mass for its own gravity to make it roughly spherical and it must clear the neighbourhood around its orbit.

    ECONOMIST: Forbidden planet | The

  • Professor Martyn Partridge, chief medical adviser to Asthma UK, said it had previously been difficult to show that smoking causes asthma as it only needed a few patients with lung disease to be wrongly classified as having asthma to skew the results.

    BBC: Women seem to be more at risk

  • Congress and the Treasury have instituted policies to prevent companies from claiming credits on payments that should not be classified as income taxes paid to a foreign government.

    ECONOMIST: President, pygmy or poodle?

  • Booth did not use complex statistical models to decide whether streets should be classified as poor or wealthy, and neither does The Economist.

    ECONOMIST: How Charles Booth��s map of Chelsea has been updated

  • Many of the knockoffs will be classified as comparable to branded biologics, but not copies that a pharmacist could automatically substitute.

    WSJ: FDA Sets Path for Biotech Drug Copies

  • "No process can be adopted to protect classified information that no one knows is classified, just as no one can be prosecuted for unauthorized disclosure of information that no one ever said was protected, " Davis said.

    CNN: Plame Wilson: Leak severely hurt U.S. intelligence

  • What should be done is to reclassify offences so that all sex not involving freely given consent should be classified as offences, but with heavier penalties if force is involved.

    BBC: How do we define rape?

  • Nor were behaviour patterns that did not appear to be sporadic (digging for termites, rather than using a stick to fish for them) classified as cultural.

    ECONOMIST: Chimpanzee behaviour: Culture club | The

  • And that's important, because once you become a diabetic, even if you drop your numbers, you will always be classified as a diabetic, making it difficult to acquire good insurance.

    CNN: Reversing diabetes is possible

  • It was originally classified as a eucrite, a group of meteorites thought to be from the asteroid Vesta.

    BBC: Mercury meteorite puzzle

  • Jefferson, who classified the attack as "weak, " nevertheless highlighted several reasons to be concerned.

    CNN: Cyberattack on Florida election raises questions

  • According to one eye-opening study, fewer than a third of all employees can be classified as actively engaged at work.

    MSN: How to get your employees to stop job hunting

  • At this time her husband told her that he had received a sum of money that he thought was a gift but which had been classified by the Inland Revenue as earnings, so that tax had to be paid on it.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In Full: Tony Blair's statement

  • It may be that they belong to some as-yet-uncharacterised group of viruses (entities classified outside Linnaeus's system, since there is no agreement about whether they are alive or not).

    ECONOMIST: A new domain of life

  • Many of the actions currently classified as contempt such as a lawyer being absent from court should be referred to the Disciplinary Board (headed by a sitting High Court judge), says Council member Mah.

    CNN: From Our Correspondent: What Is Contempt of Court?

  • He should then summon the congressional leadership as the representatives of the American people and their more junior colleagues to receive a highly classified briefing on the plan and to secure their support for a declaration of war, to be debated and adopted as soon as practicable.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: To Iraq, or not to Iraq?

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