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...Hansen won?t be the only one needing some fuel - finishing third in the relay, while respectable, was less than the U.S. men expected of themselves. ?It?s a little disappointing to get this medal,? said Phelps, who swam the second leg of the relay. ?Obviously, we wanted gold.? Ian Crocker, the lead-off swimmer, was under his usual pace because of a bacterial infection; he?s been fighting a sore throat for three days but decided not to take antibiotics. Bob Bowman, Phelps? coach and the assistant coach for the U.S. men, noted that ?It was a rough night...
...MESSENGER PROBE A nimble little spacecraft, MESSENGER weighs just 2,400 lbs. (1,100 kg), 55% of which is fuel. It carries a dual camera system and six other scientific instruments, all of which operate on solar power-something of which there is no shortage so close to the sun. A sunshade made of ceramic cloth keeps the hardware running at a balmy room temperature...
...program holds offenders accountable for violence by focusing on redefining and restructuring their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that fuel male role violence and on repairing the harm caused to the victims and to the community,” she said...
...East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
...drivers are from poor areas in Lebanon’s south or Beirut’s southern suburbs. A week before I arrived in Lebanon at the beginning of June, riots broke out in those same suburbs over a new law that prohibited the less expensive diesel fuel in vehicles that carried fewer than 20 passengers. Seeing their profit margins slashed because of outrageous gas prices, drivers and their supporters protested in the streets. The protest then became about something bigger than gasoline: People protested the lack of jobs, the intermittent government services and the poor economy. The Lebanese Army...