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...This is a very easy thing for people who don’t know what to do for the election but want to do something,” said Bishop. “They just need to make three phone calls and that will plant the seed for getting out the youth vote around the country.” Leventhal added that “if everyone pushes the message forward, one phone call could swing the election...
...ROLLED OUT. F/A-22 RAPTOR, the most sophisticated jet fighter ever made, after 23 years in production in the U.S.; at a Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Georgia. Designed at the height of the cold war, the fighter was finally built, after years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
...TIME states that five fuel rods were involved and that testing took place over two months. More ominously, the test material was "depleted" uranium imported from the former West Germany in 1976. That was a red flag for the IAEA, because depleted uranium is no good for power-plant fuel and creates more plutonium when it decays than does ordinary uranium. When the agency found out, "it really got people bent out of shape," says Mark Hibbs, Asia and Europe editor at industry publication Nucleonics Week. "That made them very keen to explore more about...
...fruits have different characteristics of shape, color, flavor, sweetness, fragrance and size. The apple collection, for example, ranges from the tiny Decio, brought to England by the Romans, to the very ugly Knobby Russet and the huge Howgate Wonder, just one of which could fill three apple pies. The plant center sells around 75 different apple trees, but if you can't find your favorite, Brogdale's experts will grow one especially for you. They can also recommend trees that will happily thrive in a pot on a balcony, provide an orchard design service tailored to soil or climate...
...contracts on Intrade for no obvious reason. Bush futures fell from 54 (giving him a 54% chance of winning) to 10. Within six minutes the price was back to 52, as traders snapped up bargains. The tumult led to speculation that someone might have been manipulating the market to plant doubts about Bush. But John Murray, a futures trader in New York City and one of Intrade's 43,000 members, says political biases don't sway serious traders. Neither do national polls. Instead, Murray does the math. Using research, he estimates the chance that each candidate will win each...