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...contrast with KANU, which is overwhelmingly backed by Kenya's six most powerful tribes-notably the powerful Kikuyu-KADU seeks support from the Masai, Baluhya and other tribes that are numerically smaller but occupy far more land than KANU'S tribes. Fearful of a massive land grab by KANU supporters, many of whom devoutly believe Kenyatta's pledge that there will be land or jobs for all, Ronald Ngala demanded-and got-a measure of decentralization giving local control over African land rights, police, education and health...
...pulls out a $ 1,000 guitar. While still stretched out on his back, he plays Johann Sebastian Bach. He seldom stops before 8, and when he does, it is the signal for his three sons, who sleep just down the hall, to reach under their beds and grab their own guitars. The family plays together until 10. Then the father laces on some sneakers, and leads his sons in a run five times around the block...
National Research scientists have made pieces of metal grab each other in a vacuum until sometimes the "cold-weld"' that formed had 95% of the strength of solid metal. Steel grabs strongly, and the scientists suspect that many other metals will do the same...
...potential problems of metals in space are numerous and annoying. But the tendency of metals to grab each other may have advantages too. When space vehicles are assembled in orbit, say National Research scientists, their joints may well be made of metals that cold-weld firmly as soon as they touch...
...when the game was really rough-when thoroughbred horse racing was a contest between swift mounts and mean jocks, when it was standard practice to slash at another rider with a whip, to grab the bridle of an opposing horse, to lock legs with a boy who was bringing his mount past in close quarters...