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...years later, Phillips discovered a way to make a quieter and immeasurably greater impact on politics. He and his brother Dean founded a company committed to an analogous task: unearthing and assembling hidden but public information--voter rolls, driver's licenses, census data--for use by activists and politicians. Information and connectivity fuel democracy, Phillips reasoned, so the more that people have of each, the easier participation becomes...
...then his course veered. Prevented by an unexpected illness from covering the 1974 conflict in Cyprus, Carlson found himself freelancing and taking quieter domestic assignments over the decades—at a bureau of TV Guide or at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which went out of business while he was writing for it. Through much of the 1990s Carlson covered endurance sports for publications like Triathlete magazine...
...their routine when the employee and part-time grad student behind the counter (Liv Tyler) attempts to bring an end to Trinke’s seven year experiment in celibacy. An unexpected job opportunity in New York also forces Trinke to decide between his original life plan and the quieter suburban existence he now shares with his daughter...
...almost clear of skin." As Daeschner explains, it wasn't only blood sport that scuppered the Olimpicks and other festivals like it. It was also the attendant vice and brawls between drunken fans from rival villages or religions. Since its revival in 1951, the Cotswold Olimpicks have been a quieter, more bucolic affair, albeit imbued with what Daeschner, 34, a Colorado-born U.K. resident, describes as the "secular trinity that made Britain what it is today: Land, Booze and Patriotism." In truth, not all of the time-ingrained rituals in True Brits really count as sport: horn dancing (a kind...
...missile targeting. The military likes fuel cells because they can help free a vehicle from dependence on vulnerable supply lines, cut fuel consumption 20% and generate enough hydrogen to be self-sufficient in electrical power for up to five hours with the engine turned off. Fuel cells are also quieter and cooler than traditional portable generators and therefore are harder for the enemy to detect. "Aside from the need for additional power, we occasionally need to go into what's called silent watch," says an Army official at the Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Mich., who requested anonymity...