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...your refund back as quickly as possible, consider filing your taxes electronically, and then elect to have the refund deposited directly into your account. You'll have your money in 10 days to two weeks rather than six to eight weeks if you file by snail mail...
...thought I’d lend some levity, perhaps inanity—something playful—to the five-hour interrogation that had begun to dribble by with all the speed of a snail. But I stumbled as I jumped to the punch...
...been hit on two fronts?devastating hurricanes and ballooning prices at the gas pump. What appears to be an incurable addiction to automobiles resulted in scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about global warming, as it continues to ignore the Kyoto...
...Change Campaign Manager Union of Concerned Scientists Washington The U.S. has been hit on two fronts - devastating hurricanes and ballooning prices at the gas pump. What appears to be an incurable addiction to automobiles resulted in scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems...
Nowhere has scientific activity been more intense than near the small town of Parkfield, which sits astride a transitional zone between a segment of the San Andreas that in 1857 produced one of the largest quakes in U.S. history and another segment characterized by snail-like creep and small, quiet microquakes. Here, amid rolling hills and golden pastureland, scientists with a National Science Foundation initiative called EarthScope are building a remarkable underground observatory known as SAFOD, or the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth...