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...much track was laid in 1848 as the year before. Everyone spoke of the resulting "annihilation of time and space," and in a journal called the Quarterly Review a writer predicted that "as distances [are] thus annihilated, the surface of our country would, as it were, shrivel in size until it became not much bigger than one immense city...
...population lives in poverty--a big reason that so many are flooding the border to work in the U.S. Keeping more Mexicans at home will almost certainly require Calderón to rein in, if not break up, the entrenched monopolies that suck vital investment from small and medium-size businesses...
...also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with Paris brokerage Oddo Securities. "It's got virtually the entire world covered and has the size and reach to be able to shift aircraft to fast-growing routes wherever they are. That leaves Air France--KLM in a pretty commanding position for the coming years...
...investigation into the DNA of dinosaurs has indicated that theropods—a class of carnivorous dinosaur including the velociraptor and the Tyrannosaurus rex—had a genome smaller than that of most vertebrates and other dinosaurs but about the same size as those of modern birds...
...genome of a bird is roughly one-third the size of that of humans and about half the size of reptilian genomes, according to Edwards. Until now, no one knew when birds had developed these irregular genomes, he said...