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...Edwards is revving up his partisan rhetoric, he's also tamping down his populist style. He has stopped thrusting his thumbs wildly in the air when crowds cheer him, adopting a slower, statesmanlike one-thumb move. And while "hope," "optimism" and the "politics of the possible" are still favorites, he's dropped the "two Americas" speech that wowed Democrats during the primaries. He sometimes even skips saying he's the son of a millworker. Edwards has also learned deference. When a New Orleans woman asked him what he could do to protect her pension, he told her the campaign didn...
...flight attendants to clean planes instead of special crews, which not only lowers costs but chops the time spent boarding at terminals to 25 minutes-about half that of the major airlines. His pilots are trained to land at a later point on the runway and at a slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation construction outfit asked for $20 million to build a hanger at Kuala Lumpur's airport...
After 18 years of work, Gabrielse, who leads an international team of physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has already found a way to produce the slowest antiprotons on earth—an important step towards understanding antimatter since the slower the antiproton, the easier it is to measure its properties accurately...
...easy availability of food. If there's some kind of biological mechanism that protects certain people against weight gain, researchers haven't discovered it. By contrast, the evidence in favor of one that protects against weight loss is increasingly strong. Genetic variations clearly push some people toward bigger appetites, slower metabolisms and greater weight gain than others. "There are genes in the population that predispose to obesity," says Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, a molecular geneticist at the Rockefeller University in New York. "Obviously, there's an environmental contribution, but no one questions that genes are involved...
...ruined face, and by the time an all-white jury acquitted Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam in a sham trial, Till's death was a touchstone for black America, fueling support for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that same year. Whites were slower on the uptake, prompting a young singer named Bob Dylan to warn in 1963, "If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust/Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust...