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...electrical circuitry, so Babbage's plan called for the machine to be executed in brass and steel and powered by a hand crank. If it had been completed, his Difference Engine would have been a magnificent beast, requiring 25,000 parts and weighing about 15 tons. But he ran out of money and patience and had to abandon it unfinished...
...explanation of her spotty record, even as it trickled out that her voting history was slightly better than initially depicted. Not surprisingly, the "working mother" excuse sent feminists into a tizzy and created doubts for some of Whitman's base of Republican women. "I raised a family and ran a business and still managed to vote," sniffed Elaine Henderson, who went to hear Whitman speak in Rancho Mirage. "I'm just not happy with her explanation. I'd like the truth. If she wasn't interested in politics, that...
...would have never won either of his governor's races without her - no way. She ran the show. He pointed the direction he wanted to go, and she was the bulldozer that cleared the path and got him there." - Will Folks, Mark's spokesman from 2001 to 2005, on Jenny's influence (Washington Post, June...
...Many political observers in South Carolina believe she would be successful if she ran for office. "She has moved from promoting [Mark Sanford] as a loyal spouse to using those same talents on behalf of herself," Jack Bass, a humanities professor at College of Charleston, told the New York Times...
...protests occurred at universities in most major Iranian cities on Students Day, Dec. 7. Yet unlike the demonstrations in previous months, which lasted no more than a day each, students have remained defiant at Tehran's oldest university. In addition to showing support for opposition leaders like Mousavi, who ran against Ahmadinejad in the disputed June election, students are demanding the resignation of University of Tehran President Farhad Rahbar because of allegations that he allowed paramilitary Basij forces into the dormitories one evening in June to attack students who were sleeping...