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...have the mills of U.S. justice been so clogged. In federal district courts, 6,200 cases have been pending for at least three years; in state courts it now takes about a year for the average case to be heard; it is not uncommon for personal-injury cases to linger on dockets for five years. Chief...
...rocket's rich catch. One possible theory is that micrometeorites may have electric charges of the same sign-either positive or negative-when they arrive from space. The charge may accumulate near the top of the atmosphere, slow down later-arriving particles by electrostatic repulsion and make them linger there...
When the air flows past an airplane's wings, it slips sideways past the tips and swirls into two twisting eddies that linger in the plane's wake for as long as a minute. Even after the airplane that made them is miles away, the eddies spin with surprising violence. A modern swept-wing jetliner, flying at 220 m.p.h. as it slows down approaching an airport, generates two twirling cornucopias of air with cores 22 ft. in diameter and outside layers rotating at 35 m.p.h...
...John F. Kennedy sped across the face of Europe last week amidst a clamor of headlines and admiring stares for his wife. But the men and nations that he visited in his brief days there were preoccupied with problems of their own, which existed before he came and would linger after he had gone...
Born 60 years ago of U.S. missionary parents in the Chinese coastal city of Chefoo, Robert McCann considered China his home. When the Japanese overran the country in the late 19305, he lingered on, clinging to his auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an exchange of U.S. and Japanese internees in 1943. But at war's end. he hurried back to his business in Tien tsin. His wife Flora remained behind in California with their three children. Mc Cann prospered even through the Chinese civil war. And when the Communists took Tientsin...