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...17th Amendment to the Constitution states that, in the event of a vacancy in the Senate, the state legislature may empower the governor to appoint a replacement to serve out the remainder of the term. All but five states still retain this outdated procedure, although it raises some troubling issues...
...into a five-meet home stretch that will wrap up the end of the indoor season, culminating with the Heptagonal Championships. TERRIER INVITATIONAL Joining Dingus on the 400-meter leaderboards, senior Derek Jones took 10th in the event with a finish of 49.22, and freshman Jonathan Meminger posted a 17th-place time at 49.61. The Crimson ‘A’ quad for the 4x400-meter relay captured 11th with a time of 3:21.10. Junior Jonathan Brito added another strong performance with an eighth-place jump in the high jump, clearing the 1.84-meter bar, while rookie Phil...
...that novel a move: the new constitution is Bolivia's 17th. But it's the first to be written via a specially elected delegate assembly and the first to undergo a national vote. (The last constitution was written and enacted by Parliament in 1967 without the participation of a single indigenous person). An elaborate document, it expands the rights of the indigenous majority. Bolivia's 36 native tongues are now all official languages, along with Spanish, and Parliament will include ethnic group representation. Also, the text solidifies state control over natural resources and makes access to water a basic human...
...layer above the troposphere, where we live - where there is no rain to clear it out. It would be blown across the globe and block the sun. The effect would not be a nuclear winter, but it would be colder than the little ice age [in the 17th and 18th centuries] and the change would happen very rapidly - over the course of a few weeks...
...three types of tobacco leaves used in a cigar - the wrapper, filler and binder - to be harvested on the island, and sailing ships were soon distributing Cuban tobacco from Europe to Asia. Columbus had claimed Cuba for Spain, and the Spanish soon cornered the nascent industry, mandating in the 17th century that all tobacco for export be registered in Seville; they later tightened their stranglehold on the market by forbidding Cuban growers to sell the crop to anyone but them - a monopoly that persisted until...