Word: hearings
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...government begin to rise, and only then will voters begin to respond. What I can't agree with is the notion, expressed by the Tea Partyers profiled in Von Drehle's terrific story, that government has no role in solving large national problems. And, by the way, to hear those voices, we deployed five reporters, a photographer and a videographer to Tea Party gatherings in five states...
...people in the U.K. - and soon became widely loathed. That, Lindstrom says, was partly because so few users practiced cell-phone etiquette and the blasted things kept going off in movie theaters. The Microsoft start-up sound has taken on similarly negative associations, because people so often hear it when they're rebooting after their computer has crashed. In these cases, manufacturers themselves must reboot by changing the offending sound slightly or replacing it entirely...
...said that Harvard students were relieved to hear from Samuel H. Crihfield ’11, who spent last summer in Chile and is currently there to study. Though Crihfield is safe, he said he is trapped in the southern town of Pucón due to damaged roads and bridges...
Kolesnikov's experience seems to drive this point home. In promoting the idea of a Cyrillic domain on the Web, much of his work has been devoted to calming people's fear of the government. "As soon as people hear about this idea, they think of a state conspiracy to shove everyone into this domain, close the door and turn on the gas," Kolesnikov tells TIME. "This makes no sense. But it is part of the Soviet person's instinct. It is impossible to convince people it's not true...
...Chile's second largest city, Concepción, the army has issued a "silence" order on some urban blocks so rescue workers can hear the possible tapping of survivors under the rubble of the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on Feb. 27. The quake may be, as Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Sunday, "an emergency unparalleled" in the country's history. But the death toll - fewer than 1,000 so far, despite the quake's being one of the strongest ever recorded - is a tribute to Chile's remarkable preparation and response...