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...nation's presidential elections. In a stark contrast to 2002, when 4.8 million people voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen of the far-right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between mainstream right and left. The strong showing of centrist contender François Bayrou (who captured 18.5% of the vote, compared to Sarkozy's 31% and Royal...
Wednesday’s ill-considered decision will have the worst possible repercussions for American women. It will propel the anti-abortion movement forward until the nation finds itself a repressive land of back-alley abortions. The Supreme Court has no more notion of what goes on in an operating room than it does in a woman’s mind—and it should not presume to legislate on either...
...learning on the American continent was established by a colonial government. The college was to be the center of thought and advancement for the New World. Its thinkers would help create a new class of educated public servants that would transform a group of colonies into a nation and propel that nation to greatness. Needless to say, we all know the name of this esteemed institution: the University of Henrico in Henricus, Virginia. Lucky for us, construction was delayed indefinitely when the town was destroyed by the small event named by historians as the Indian Massacre of 1622. Whew. Close...
...first 400 meters. “They gained another five seats round the curve,” two-seat Dan Rasmussen said. “But then we remained steady with them, and gained a little ourselves in the last stretch.” That was not enough to propel Harvard out in front of Cornell, however. The Big Red won again by just over two seconds, with a 5:49.7 time, compared to the Crimson’s 5:52.0. “I think we knew going into it that it would be a tough race...
...facility in Yamanashi prefecture, about 50 miles west of Tokyo. The repulsion created between magnets embedded in the U-shaped track and others embedded inside the cars causes the train to levitate 10 cm above the bottom of the track - "maglev" is short for magnetic levitation. The magnets also propel the train forward very, very quickly, in part because air creates less friction than rail. The Yamanashi test maglev set a world speed record for trains in 2003 at 361 mph, and it cruises...