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...jolts, there's no evidence yet that Kerry's presidential prospects have got one from the addition of Edwards to the ticket. The latest TIME poll, conducted over the three days of media frenzy that followed the Edwards announcement, shows it did little to budge the race from the margin-of-error territory where it has been pretty much stuck since Kerry secured the nomination in March. He now leads Bush 49% to 45% among likely voters; in early June, the margin was only slightly tighter, with Bush leading 49% to 48%. To the degree that there has been...
Other questions should be answered when Cassini flies by Hyperion, a tumbling moon that appears to have been knocked off its pins by a collision eons ago and has never regained its footing; and Tethys, a moon that bears such a massive impact scar that only the barest geological margin keeps it from shattering altogether...
...elections matter. The U.S. presidential election, because it chooses the leader of the nation whose policies have so much impact on the world, matters to everyone. The U.S. enters the last stages of this year's campaign as a nation divided. Polls have consistently shown - reprising the razor-close margin of 2000 - that the electorate is pretty evenly split between those likely to support President George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, and Senator John Kerry, his Democratic opponent. And Kerry's dramatic choice of a running mate last week - his primary rival John Edwards, a charismatic North Carolina senator...
Competing with its seven remaining rowers, the Crimson stood little chance, losing by the wide margin...
With the Nereus crew taking its semifinal race by a narrow one-quarter length margin, the stage was set for an all Netherlands final. Nereus charged out of the gate, taking the lead by the Barrier point and maintaining it for the duration of the race, as it finished in a time of 6:52—12 seconds faster than it finished in its quarterfinal defeat of Harvard...