Word: short
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...rather, it is the 21st century version of slum clearance, with parking lots and strip malls getting razed and superblocks - long stretches uninterrupted by cross streets - getting chopped up to create short, walkable city blocks...
...said that a New York State law barring felons from voting violated the federal Voting Rights Act. Sotomayor does not appear to be an outlier in race cases, although she seems to have no overarching theory about how to decide them. For that reason, she seems unlikely, in the short term, to affect the balance on the Roberts Court in cases involving race. At the moment, the court is divided among four color-blind conservatives who are suspicious of affirmative action, four liberals who are sympathetic to it, and Anthony Kennedy, who is skeptical of racial classifications but reluctant...
...Qazi Jamil, a senior Peshawar police official, says that threats have loomed over the city and the PC in particular for some time now. But he and his colleagues are poorly resourced, short-staffed and only now receiving counter-terrorism training. "We have stepped up security, we are trying to block all the entry routes to the city from the militants," he says. "We are doing spot checks in the city and the surrounding rural areas. But we cannot check every single car." He points out the sacrifices that Peshawar's policemen have made in recent years. In the courtyard...
...even Putin's harsh words and the disbursal of pay have not put an end to the feeling here that the crisis will continue. "It's unlikely the situation will change. Receiving our pay was a small gesture, a short-term solution," says Denis Yershov, a former employee at the local electricity plant who helped block the road last week. "I'll be happy when we have work again. I'll be happy when we have stability and I'm able to feed my family...
...compensation would have to come from the environment, and studies suggest that early intervention can have great impact. Researchers at the University of Georgia last month published a study of 641 adolescents, ages 11 to 16, some of whom carried the short allele form of the gene 5-HTTLPR - a genetic condition found in about 40% of the general population and long associated with low self-control, binge drinking and substance use. Half of the participants were randomly enrolled in drug prevention programs. After five years, those participants with 5-HTTLPR who were enrolled in a prevention program were...