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...handling high voltages like those found in switches for big municipal power grids. Physically, diamond's toughness allows it to withstand the searing heat of more sophisticated lasers and even the brutal extremes of temperature and pressure faced by the windows on spacecraft as they leave and re-enter Earth's atmosphere. And diamond's ability to resist corrosion from acids and other organic compounds makes it a good material for biological sensors that may one day be implanted in the human body...
...politics, as in life, exercises in competitive indignation can get out of hand. Biden got rolling his resolution disapproving of the surge--but without thinking through the counterattack that would be opened up. Now, as the troops begin to enter the theater, Republicans can ask whether the main effect of these merely symbolic resolutions isn't to undermine the chances of Americans succeeding and to encourage our enemies. Similarly, the idea of a legislated cap on troop strength had seemed a good way to show real commitment to the antiwar cause. Yet actually explaining why 137,000 troops in Iraq...
...CLINTON: Well, there were lots of doubts that I worked through from the November election, until I made the decision. But those are the kinds of concerns anybody who is going to enter into this high-stakes political election would have to ask. So I went through and just thought to myself, do I really -. I sort of started from the back. Do I believe I would be the best person to be President in January, 2009, to undo the damage of the last years, and to put us on the right path? And I really believe I would...
...with the paper ever since its inception in 2000, and the animosity escalated with the paper’s sharp criticism of the university’s chancellor, Pedro Palou. Yet Zepeza said he was shocked when he saw four members of the administration accompanied by four security guards enter the paper’s office on Jan. 17, only two hours after he said he received an e-mail notification that they would shut it down. The six staff members were told to leave immediately, Zepeza said.“When we tried to back up our files...
...bloodied penitents stumble from the circles, others rush in to grab their places. Flails are handed off to newcomers, and the crowd surges to enfold the wounded with scarves that become souvenirs, rendered holy by the blood of living martyrs. Throughout the day, waves of barebacked young men enter the circles, and then return to the crowd bleeding and triumphant...