Word: bottlenecks
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...TRUCKERS Interstates will have "smart" lanes enabling computer-driven vehicles to travel bumper to bumper at high speeds. Suburbia will decongest by using bottleneck sensors in cars to suggest alternate routes, and while you can kiss those meter maids goodbye, expect tickets to appear on your virtual dash...
...billion years. Nevertheless, a sufficiently advanced civilization might be able to master the intricacies of creating baby universes--maybe even selling kits to do it in science fairs. Unfortunately, the new space-time such a universe inhabits will be forever cut off from our cosmos by the black-hole bottleneck (which destroys everything that passes through it), and thus will be just as undetectable as those in quantum theory's many-worlds interpretation...
...agreement, it would be folly for the Israeli public to scuttle it. Ultimately, for Israel the strongest defense against Syria is not the strategic buffer of the Golan Heights, but the destabilizing influence peace will have on Assad's authoritarian rule. The current regime in Damascus is a major bottleneck to peace; it occupies Lebanon with 30,000 troops, allows the radical Iranian-inspired Hezbollah to operate against Israel, and remains on the State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. A Syrian-Israeli agreement under these circumstances will be more like an absence of war. For a tangible, long...
...rewrites speeches himself, which takes time. Since he doesn't have the Vice President's policy apparatus, he solicits ideas from hundreds of outsiders; his staff boils down the best ones. But Bradley is the final arbiter of what's good enough, which is why he can create a bottleneck. In November, he was scheduled to give a major foreign-policy address at Tufts University, but as the date drew near, the campaign made less of it. And when Bradley finally delivered the thing, it turned out to be a gauzy disappointment, not what one would have expected from this...