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...Gender Breakdown by Concentration...
...then what? Clinton?s plan, which doesn?t require the congressional stamp of approval, is expected to create a global, private-sector body to take the reins over the next two years. Another all-powerful Internet Illuminati? ?We?ve got to be sure there?s not a breakdown in the system,? Ira Magaziner, a senior Clinton adviser, told Reuters. True, but many Internet users would prefer open competition among domain-name registration firms. Today?s report is just the beginning of that battle...
...aging. In his 24 years in the Senate, Glenn has distinguished himself as a champion of the elderly and something of a lay scholar on the biology of senescence. It has not escaped his notice that some of the changes the body goes through as it ages--the breakdown of bones and the immune system, for example--are identical to the ones it goes through in zero-G. What better way to study both phenomenons than to send a senior citizen into space...
...Sarpolus, the head researcher for the Michigan study of driving behavior, was struck by the gender breakdown of aggressive drivers: 53% of them are women. "There is a tremendous cultural shift taking place," he says. "Men still outnumber women in pure numbers, but women are not only increasing, they are not falling off as they get older. Women have fought to be equal in the workplace and in society, and now they're fighting to be equal behind the wheel. [Our] data are full of soccer moms...
...That was a bit of a breakdown for us", Tomassoni said. "We went for the puck and we were a little lax and they got a nice bounce that went their way. [Gernander] was way off to the weak side and in most cases--nine times out of 10--the puck doesn't go to him. Unfortunately this time...