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...Union Carbide's Eveready lab, the chemical engineer was asked to make a small battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries...
...from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies in the count. Earlier partial results showed no party had enough support on its own to govern Kosovo, which has been under U.N. supervision since 1999. Serbs boycotted the poll, aiming to halt a move toward independence by the ethnic Albanian majority. Kabul Kidnappings AFGHANISTAN In the first abductions of foreigners in Kabul in recent years, three workers for the U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing the Oct. 9 presidential vote count were snatched from a car. They were identified as Annetta Flanigan of Northern...
Against Princeton, however, there was the potential for a similar roadblock. The Tigers boasted the linebacker duo of Zak Keasey and Justin Stull, who each came into the contest with an Ivy League-leading 59 tackles. In theory, their force up front would halt Dawson’s potential conquest...
...That doesn't mean China's robust economic engine is destined to grind to a halt. The country already suffers frequent power outages, but they occur because of insufficient electrical-generation capacity, not a lack of fuel. The mainland meets more than two-thirds of its energy needs with coal and boasts the world's largest coal reserves. But to keep the increasingly oil-dependent economy racing ahead?and to ease some of the pollution that comes from burning coal for power?China's leaders are forced to seek ever-greater supplies of petroleum from overseas. More than half...
Kagan was one of 54 Harvard Law School faculty members who signed a friend-of-the-court brief in January backing the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a nationwide network of 20 law schools suing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and five other Bush cabinet members to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment...