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...this is still Florida, after all, and the potential for a breakdown has to be considered. Optical-scan technology is relatively reliable, for example, but it's also slower - some delays due to technical glitches with the new machines were reported during Florida's early voting - and with expected turnout approaching 80% in Florida, voting-rights advocates worry about congestion and overload. Stoking the anxiety is a shortage of poll workers in larger counties like Broward, where Fort Lauderdale is located. And McCrea warns that the Florida legislature hasn't provided for enough mandatory post-election vote audits. (It requires...
France notched an important victory against the pirates who plague commercial shipping off the Horn of Africa, when it arrested nine of them at sea during a raid near the Gulf of Aden. But the roots of Somalia's piracy problem lie in the breakdown of state authority on land, which is why many questioned just how effective the French Naval action - or the NATO patrols due to begin in the coming days - will be in curbing the pirates. The nine nabbed by the French, after all, were stripped of their weapons and then handed over to the very Somali...
...take Olive with her. Soon, it's clear, mother and child are gone for good. That leaves Caden open to the adoring advances of Hazel (Samantha Morton), who runs the box office at his theater. Her attentions hardly distract Caden from his obsessive suspicions of a physical breakdown: a bathroom accident has left him with a scar on his forehead and the skin disease known as sycosis. Before long, even sympathetic viewers will wonder if Caden is suffering from psychosis...
...HHPR editor described the event as a “breakdown in our normal process, or at least what should be our normal process...
...Admittedly, the information provided by HUDS before this year was not perfect. Though a breakdown of fat, carbohydrates, and protein and a suggested serving size is useful information, it is too complicated to help plan a nutritionally balanced meal on the fly. Ideally, dining halls could provide some of the information displayed in the past along with a picture of a plate with appropriate portions for each meal. Not only would this help the majority of Harvard students easily identify the appropriate ratios of main courses to sides in a given meal, but also might even help students with eating...