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...soften her makeup and clothing. She can change her hairstyle. But when her voice spews forth the same old leftist diatribe, you are left with the same Hillary Clinton. She wants to take from those of us who have worked our whole lives to better ourselves and give to those who don't want to be bothered with working. I can't think of a single circumstance that would allow me to vote for Clinton. Troy Worthy, HURST, TEXAS...
...soften her makeup and clothing. She can change her hairstyle. But when her voice spews forth the same old leftist diatribe, you are left with the same Hillary Clinton. She wants to take from those of us who have worked our whole lives to better ourselves and give to those who don't want to be bothered with working. I can't think of a single circumstance that would allow me to vote for Clinton. Troy Worthy, Hurst, Texas...
...urban roofs are going green. Environmental designers looking for new ways to soften cities have begun to realize that the tops of buildings don't have to be wastelands. Indeed, they can be gardens, planted with grasses, flowers and shrubs that control temperature, conserve water and clean the air. A newly published paper in the journal BioScience reveals just how much good green roofs...
...around the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah, a district on Baghdad's rural southern fringe, which until recently was best known for its place in the Triangle of Death. Mahmudiyah was where five U.S. soldiers were killed and three kidnapped in May. But local Iraqis there are now trying to soften its violent reputation and even make Mahmudiyah and its surrounding political district a model for peace and reconciliation among Iraqis and with Coalition troops...
...just as in Formula One, there's "a black art to getting it all set up," says Smith. Depending on the weather or track conditions, mechanics will tinker with the transmission, or slide the wheels in or out along the axle to adjust a kart's handling. They can soften the ride with torsion bars, support the driver's seat to alter the load going into a corner, and switch between slick and treaded tires. Early exposure to those details "explains why people like [Hamilton] are that good," says Martin Hines, boss of the Hertfordshire-based Zip Kart Young Guns...