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...Touch-screen technology is used by less than one-tenth of the voters in America. There are few complaints, and the prospect of a nationwide network of Automatic Voting Machines, with the flashing lights and soothing blips that Americans understand, is now in vogue: See your ballots. Pick your candidates. Confirm. Press Enter. Maybe they print out receipts in case the software crashes...
...Especially in Sydney, we still tend to embrace the disreputable. Organized religion doesn't play one-tenth the part in Australian life that it does in American; the churches have power, but compared with the U.S. our civilization is almost entirely secular. Our state-sponsored education is excellent, and we do not give a cent in subsidies to church schools. And we have fierce democratic commitments that hardly exist in America. It is, for example, a (lightly) punishable offense not to vote in a national election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that...
Last week the magazine's new managers, New York City-based Vanguarde Media Inc., halted publication and fired most of the staff, including Curry. Despite the booming economy and the affluence of the black middle class, Emerge's circulation was stuck at 160,000, one-tenth the size of Ebony's. It had been losing $1 million a year. Says Roy Johnson, editorial director of Vanguarde, which in April became joint owner of Emerge in a complex deal with BET Holdings II Inc.: "From a business standpoint, suspending publication was an easy call. As a new company, we simply could...
Even the best Bose condensate is a modest thing--measuring about one-tenth of a millimeter across--but the little cloud could help science take big steps. Particles frozen so rigidly in place are easy to observe and manipulate, providing a clearer than ever look at how things behave at the subatomic, or quantum, state. Down the line, such precise control may make it easier to design better atomic clocks or fabricate submicroscopic nanocomponents and other vanishingly tiny machines. Absolute zero might be an impossibility, but for scientists who have spent their careers trying to drive the thermometer down...
...neighborhood houses a little less than one-tenth of the city's population, the fifth highest count of the city's 13 neighborhoods as designated...