Word: fasters
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...computer chip would double every two years - which is precisely what has happened. He was rewarded for his prescience with a sort of immortality: the famed "Moore's Law" is one of the venerable truths of the computer world. The rest of us were rewarded with ever faster and ever smaller computers. At some point soon, however, miniaturization will reach a point that's too tiny to be practical. It's then, many hope, that what's known as quantum computing - based on information-sharing particles - will take over. (See the top 10 1950s Sci-Fi movies...
Time was, Americans didn't worry much about miles per gallon. The first cars had small engines and got stellar gas mileage--as high as 21 m.p.g. for the Model T. But as vehicles got faster and larger and grew tail fins, efficiency plummeted. Congress didn't set fuel standards until after the oil embargo of 1973. By 1985, efficiency had improved dramatically, but momentum slowed as the government let standards stagnate. President Barack Obama's support for raising fuel efficiency to 35 m.p.g. by 2020--a move that could save 2 million bbl. of oil a day--has environmentalists...
...ticktock of farm auctions and foreclosures in the heartland, punctuated by the occasional suicide, has seldom let up since the 1980s. But one of the malaise's most excruciating aspects is regularly overlooked: rural pastors are disappearing even faster than the general population, leaving graying congregations helpless in their time of greatest need. Trace Haythorn, president of the nonprofit Fund for Theological Education (FTE), says fewer than half the rural churches in the U.S. have a full-time seminary-trained pastor; in parts of the Midwest, the figure drops to 1 in 5. "It's a religious crisis, for sure...
...difficult logistics of buying real estate are more political than they are practical. Buying housing in Florida or California might do more to help values recover because prices are dropping faster in those regions. A Congressman from Kentucky might want to see most of the money go to buy farmland in his state. But the same haggling will apply to the infrastructure programs the government is planning...
...very decisive." Those qualities were burnished in November, when Maliki overcame considerable opposition within Iraq's parliament to sign an agreement with the U.S. that requires the withdrawal of American combat troops from most urban areas this summer, and from Iraq altogether by 2011. Some factions wanted a faster withdrawal, others insisted on a delay. (Maliki rarely meets Western journalists; his office didn't respond to TIME's repeated interview requests...