Word: spans
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Introduction to American Government—I think I’ll petition at the end of the summer to see if I can get credit from the government department for the many hours I’ve spent watching C-SPAN this summer. I think this all-politics, all-the-time channel gives students a much more realistic depiction of what the U.S. Congress is all about: gentlemen from Ohio with mops on their heads threatening to do the moon walk. Beam...
...Percentage of C-SPAN viewers who voted in the 2000 presidential election...
...Millions of people who watch C-SPAN weekly...
...months to complete. Other wounds will take longer to heal. Muslims and Croats still lead separate lives in Mostar, but the project does at least represent a small ray of hope. Emir Balic, 67, a diver who leapt more than 1,000 times from the top of the span into the shallow waters as part of an annual competition, says he now plans to do so one more time: "People will at least gather around the bridge and talk again," he says. "Time will help us reconcile." The new bridge has been designed as an exact replica of the span...
...also relieved at the thought that there was no chance of my being seized as a running dog, imperialist American spy. Ten dollars poorer but richer nonetheless, I headed back to Ji'an, crossing the Yalu by a bridge that I now know does so much more than just span a river. It links, and separates, two different worlds...