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POLITICS: "True or False? Candidates Should Never Flip-Flop" (p. 39). Senior Writer and Political Correspondent Jonathan Darman writes that before true believers start getting glum about Barack Obama and John McCain flip-flopping on some issues, it is worth remembering that flip-flopping has a noble history in this country. Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson and Bobby Kennedy all switched positions on significant issues. Those were conversions of courage, but changing one's mind in politics is more often lambasted than lionized. The muddle of our modern political coalitions has made it virtually impossible for ambitious politicians not to change their position on some issue as they rise from local to national prominence. Answer: False.

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ENVIRONMENT: "True or False? Global Warming Is a Cause Of This Year's Extreme Weather" (p. 52). Begley writes that whenever someplace is hit with extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. This pretense has worn thin. The frequency of downpours and heat waves, as well as the power of hurricanes, has increased so dramatically that "100-year storms" are striking some areas once every 15 years, and other once rare events keep returning like a bad penny. As a result, some climatologists now say global warming is to blame. Answer: True.

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TECHNOLOGY: "True or False: The Internet Is The New Sweatshop" (p. 54). Senior Writer N'Gai Croal reports that thanks to the growth of user-generated content on the Internet, today's most valuable employees will most likely never set foot inside the building-or collect a paycheck. They may be teenagers posting videos of t
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