Political scientist Larry Bartels of Princeton University , a leading scholar on voting behavior and the electoral process, cautioned against giving too much weight to a single poll in a volatile election year. The partisan leanings of states tend to be quite stable from election to election, he said. Once a largely forgotten factor in social research, dismissed by those who believed that society would inevitably secularize and cast spirituality aside, religion is now a hot field of inquiry. Until recently, a long-standing academic bias against religion has blinded many scholars to its powerful role in shaping both private lives and the public culture. In some aspects, the organic molecules are a step backward compared to conventional materials.
Copper is a better conductor of electricity, and silicon makes for faster computer chips.
Dr. Forrest and his colleague, Dr. Mark Thompson, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, have made L.E.D.'s out of different unlinked organic molecules, and Universal Display Corporation of Ewing, N.J., is similarly turning that research into video displays and hopes to have products on the market by the end of next year. A new strategy focused on tracking HIV infections better, coupled with funding the most cost-effective prevention programs, could significantly cut new infections, says committee member Dr. Myron Cohen, professor and chief of infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. By focusing mainly on AIDS cases, where diagnosis lags behind HIV infection by approximately 10 years without treatment and even longer with treatment, today's system looks at the past rather than to the future and tracks where the epidemic has been rather than where it is going. Although Nader does not expect to win the presidency, he has been using his campaign to try and push the Democratic Party more to the left, to draw attention to his issues and to secure at least 5 percent of the national vote in November. Others, however, view Nader's presidential bid as quixotic and potentially self-defeating.