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...With the clock ticking, officials are stepping up efforts to close the cases. Interpol appealed this summer to law-enforcement authorities worldwide, urging them to capture ICTR fugitives within their borders. Rwanda maintains it would be best to try all suspects there; the death penalty was formally abolished in July, eliminating a major obstacle in extradition negotiations. And the ICTR has begun shifting jurisdiction over the accused to individual countries, entrusting them to try those fugitives found after the ICTR's deadline. "There will always be a framework in place to ensure these people can be tried. We are confident...
...there's no suspension to speak of. But there's often a push-button starter, a hydraulic disk brake, and a tiny onboard computer that measures everything from average speed to G-force. In the cadet class for the youngest competitive drivers like Nelson, the karts' 60-cc engines clock speeds of around 50 m.p.h. (80 km/h). The junior classes - open to racers from around 12 - have 100-cc to 125-cc motors that top 75 m.p.h. (120 km/h) on a typical 1-km circuit. Engines get even faster in the senior classes for older teenagers...
...Graham first hinted at a 90-day clock in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 19. In his comments before that panel, he merely predicted the world would see progress by Baghdad in the next 90 days...
...didn’t know their lottery status. Such late lotteries leave students who have been rejected from the course with an insufficient amount of time to scramble for a final course and trot around campus collecting signatures. Students should not be forced to make rash decisions as the clock ticks down...
...Shanghai isn’t that between 1992 and today they’ve built twice as many skyscrapers as exist in New York City. Or that another 1,000 are slated for completion for the World Expo in 2010. (Construction is literally taking place around the clock on its tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center...