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...skyward pointing "swallow tails" once typical of southeast China. Some houses are filled with period furnishings and costumes, and the family shrine still represents the family's departed ancestors. A winding path up the island's highest point leads up to an ancient Taoist temple, giant golf ball-shaped radar units and superb seaviews...
...gridlock. The relentless growth in air travel has far outstripped the capacity of U.S. airports--there's too much aluminum and not enough concrete. And the air-traffic-control system that went into service 60 years ago still resembles the original, right down to the inefficient positioning of radar beacons. Yet in the past five years, commercial air traffic has increased 27%, to 660 million passenger trips annually. In the next decade, that number is expected to reach 1 billion...
...stabbed in the head. She suffered from possible brain damage, and in two IQ tests scored 69 and 80. "A resignation usually sets in at this stage, but not with Wanda," lawyer Steve Presson said. But in her life, "normal" and "rational" seldom popped up on Allen's radar screen...
...Meanwhile, Thompson flew under the radar, his confirmation hearings attracting virtually no press attention. The Wisconsin governor, who is outspokenly pro-life, is Bush's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a post that guarantees as much if not more control over the practical application of women's reproductive rights than the AG job. In addition to controlling the dissemination of federally sponsored reproduction education materials, Thompson would oversee the FDA, the agency in charge of approving new drugs, including, most recently...
...government's safety standards, which the Federal Communications Commission adopted in 1996, they amount to a bundle of compromises that date back to 1982, when cell phones were barely a blip on anyone's radar screen. Researchers found at the time that they could degrade the performance of laboratory animals by bombarding their bodies with 4 W/kg of radio waves. To adapt this to humans, engineers first divided 4 W/kg by a safety factor of 10, and later by a factor of 5, and came up with .08 W/kg. According to a scientific rule of thumb, that is the equivalent...