1.   Both measures affect undergraduate admissions at state schools, not professional schools, where insuring diversity in small law or medical school classes is considered much more challenging.

2.   Despite bans in California and Texas on using race in admissions, many educators say affirmative action remains the best way to insure diversity on their campuses.

3.   For example, she supports the death penalty but said she would use race as factor in hiring to insure diversity in her office.

4.   Fire insures biological diversity, for instance, by keeping a handful of aggressive plant species from crowding out scores of less aggressive ones.

5.   Insure diversity by choosing managers who use different approaches to stock-picking and who work with companies of different sizes.