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In a subdivision in Nashville, Tenn., live David and Nancy Guthrie. They own no sheep or camels, but they have a late-model Infiniti and a wide-screen Sony TV. They would never lay claim to blamelessness, but they are regarded as upright and God-fearing among their friends, who...
Granted, as a litmus test being a banker tapped for the Fed doesn't quite compare to, say, being pro-choice or anti-affirmative action when you're marked for the Supreme Court. But the world of monetary policy does have its divides, and being a banker puts you on...
Others, meanwhile, attacked a different aspect of the problem. As the universe expands, the combined gravity from all the matter within it tends to slow that expansion, much as the earth's gravity tries to pull a rising rocket back to the ground. If the pull is strong enough, the...
So astrophysicists tried another approach: determine whether the expansion was slowing down, and by how much. That's what Brian Schmidt, a young astronomer at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia, set out to do in 1995. Along with a team of colleagues, he wanted to measure the cosmic slowdown...
Most evidence about cell-phone danger is, like Pena's story, anecdotal. While studies have shown that cell phones increase the risk of accidents, no hard data exist to prove how they compare to other driver distractions. But estimates do suggest that cell phones cause anywhere from 600 to 1...