Word: civilizations
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Lafarge is by no means alone. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a concrete expert, says "there's not one single cement company that is not looking at" ways to improve the resistance of concrete. He still sees room for improvement. The next step is to create materials with higher strength but that use the same amount of initial material, says...
According to Cigar Aficionado, nearly half of all U.S. Presidents smoked. Ulysses S. Grant never shook the cigar habit he picked up during the Civil War. William McKinley had a similar love of stogies, but like Obama, he never allowed himself to be photographed in the act. Theodore Roosevelt barred his daughter Alice from smoking in the White House, so she took her habit to the roof. Calvin Coolidge was known to offer cigars to Congressmen after White House breakfasts...
...Jaruzelski defended the communist system, not Poland," Borusewicz says. "He defended the communist dictatorship, not the state." Marek Krasko, a Warsaw accountant, remembers that as a 13-year-old, he welcomed martial law--because the schools were closed--until he saw his grandmother in tears at the prospect of civil war. "Martial law was a hard blow for Solidarity, and it pushed the country back," he says. "But on the other hand, without Jaruzelski, it all could have ended up in violence." A December 2007 survey showed that 44% of Poles believe the authorities had no choice but to crack...
...family name, perhaps overshadowing what she might accomplish in office. I concede that there’s nothing about Caroline Kennedy herself that should worry or anger many New York voters—if anything, quite the opposite is true. As the author of several acclaimed books on civil liberties and a prominent Manhattan attorney, Ms. Kennedy would be an ideal public servant. But through no fault of her own, she could nevertheless make her Senate seat into another Kennedy stronghold, and a “stronghold” is simply not something that should exist in American politics...
...perhaps more importantly–the root of the problem: Somalia itself. The country fits squarely in the category of a failed state: It has no stable government with monopoly over the use of force, it is plagued with warlords struggling for supremacy, and it is fighting a bloody civil war in which neighbors Eritrea and Ethiopia have gotten involved. It is not surprising, then, that amidst poverty, famine, and disease, Somalis have decided to go after the rich ships visible from their shores. In that sense, seaborne piracy is the visible face of the lack of opportunities on shore...