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...High-speed trains, true to their name, are fast. They travel over 150 miles per hour, which is about three times faster than a car on a highway. When you factor in traffic, travel by car is even slower in comparison. They are also faster than air travel for distances of less than 500 miles—though airplanes can reach higher speeds, flight check-in, interminable security lines, and inevitable delays make train travel a speedier option...
...46th with a time of 4:47.47, while Mills touched the wall 47th with a time of 4:47.75. With these times, neither Clarke nor Mills advanced to the finals, where Allison Schmitt from Georgia placed first in a time of 4:35.17.For both athletes, these times were considerably slower than their qualifying times from Ivies, where Clarke raced the 500 yards in 4:42.84 and Mills in 4:43.41.Mills, however, was positive about the experience, since she was not even sure if she would race in NCAAs after undergoing leg surgery last year.“I think...
...According to the Congressional bean counters, the economy is likely to grow at a slower rate than Obama had projected when the budget was drafted, and than several other economic forecasts anticipate. Under the Administration's plans, that means an explosion in government debt after the current recession ends, with sustained deficits even larger than the ones caused in the 1980s by the policies of Ronald Reagan. The national debt, the CBO calculated, would go from 41% of the size of the nation's economic output in 2008 to 82% of the economic output in 2019. In other words...
...fact that Richardson was not wearing a helmet may or may not have made a difference in the gravity of her injury. If skiers are moving slowly - say 10 m.p.h. or slower - and they fall on soft snow, they're probably not going to be hurt severely, whether they're wearing a helmet or not. If they're moving faster than 15 or 20 m.p.h. and strike ice, hard-packed snow or another solid object with the head, they're likely to suffer severe injury, and again the presence of a helmet may not make much difference...
Experience vs. Youth. A study of Canadian air-traffic controllers published in this month's Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that an aging brain is just as sharp as a young one - at least when it comes to surveying the skies. While older controllers, aged 53 to 64, were slower on simple memory or decision-making tasks not directly related to air-traffic control than their younger peers, aged 20 to 27, they did equally well on tests that directly simulated the tasks of an air traffic controller. The study's lead author theorizes that decades of experience and expertise...