Word: existance
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...challenges still exist. While reporting this story, I came across people on every continent but Antarctica who were frustrated. Voter outreach simply doesn't make it to everybody. Some people I spoke with were so confused by the process that they ended up not voting. An electronic voting system is in development, but Brunelli says that it may take "several years" before it can be used. Los Angeles County has a website where absentee voters can trace their ballots. The Federal Voting Overseas Program redesigned their website to ease the process and the Overseas Vote Foundation's website walks voters...
...gave themselves an attitude makeover to keep up with the blogs and Comedy Central. CNN hired comic D.L. Hughley to do a late-night show, and even the stodgy Associated Press started injecting bloggy potshots and analysis into its wire stories. If you didn't snark, you didn't exist...
...been so high. Another of our greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, looked to the arts to restore the confidence of the American people in the depths of the Great Depression, because no matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress’s massive blood-letting, the NEA’s budget represented just 0.01 percent...
...obvious why the economy is trumping race? Even racists worry first about their jobs and mortgages. But more seriously, are TIME and the rest of the media creating an issue that doesn't really exist? Barack Obama has proved his ability to reach out to a broad spectrum of U.S. voters. He didn't win the Democratic nomination on the votes of people of color alone. Lenny Bernstein, Asheville...
...Force’s mission and the related challenges in science and engineering,” Wu said. One of the primary projects of Wood’s lab is to create a flying robotic insect. “We want to try to answer some fundamental questions that exist in both biology and engineering pertaining to organisms and devices that flap their wings for propulsion,” Wood said. Wood is approaching this question by manufacturing the robotic fly at the scale of an actual fly. His lab uses parts, including transmission systems and air foils, which have...