Word: considerations
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Congress, however, must attend to all the not-so-trivial details of such a convention. How will the delegates be chosen? Will the states have equal representation, as in the U.S. Senate, or will their votes be weighted according to population? How long can the convention go on? Above all...
* The U.S., like 26 other nations, has maintained its embassy in Tel Aviv since 1948, because it does not consider Israel to have clear title to Jerusalem as a capital. To avoid political complications, the embassy deals with Israeli matters, the smaller Jerusalem consulate deals with Arabs.
It is unclear whether Senator Dole will pursue his cult hearings any further. Nor has Congress given any clue as to whether it will consider legislation to attack either the questionable religious groups, or the strong-arm tactics being used against them. There is always that little problem of squaring...
But he was stubborn on other scientific issues. As he admitted in his later years: "I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. In Princeton, they consider me an old fool." He had earned this new reputation by his continued objections to what had become the...
Meanwhile, Einstein's restless mind had turned from special relativity's uniform motion to the greater complexities of accelerated movements. These are motions involving changes in velocity: as when the earth's gravity draws an object toward the ground, the object's velocity increases by 9.8 meters (32 ft.) per...