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...good health for many years to come. Cars trot along this centenarian at a stately 16 km/h. Kingda Ka New Jersey This brand-new superstar from the U.S. theme park chain Six Flags claimed the roller coaster triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the big-gest drop (127 m). Numbers don't lie. Gravity Max Taichung, Taiwan Located in the Discovery World theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That means it's not just the cars that move. The track...
...stops being politicians' favorite punching bag. No wonder the challenge of spending all that money seems to hold no joy for those grinding away at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center located in a sad annex behind a southwest Washington Holiday Inn. "The size of it is daunting. The speed with which it needs to be delivered is very difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing to nearly 1 million people in the region. To help quicken the pace of rebuilding, the government has relaxed some...
...Well, you know we miss those guys. Those guys are great players and great leaders. They have a lot of speed on the field. But we have other guys stepping up, Ryan Tully stepping up, Adam Miller doing the job and stepping up, Gary Sonkur, Keith Howell doing well. Mike Berg on the defensive line is doing a great job as well. I feel like we’re going to surprise a lot of teams this year. People are doubting us because we lost people like Ricky Williamson and Bobby Everett. I think we’re going...
...moderate-size khipu is 15 to 20 pages of notations of numbers and colors,” Urton said. “The database gives us strategies of approaching khipu in ways that were not conceivable before, providing us with a high level of speed analysis and comprehensive analysis of a large body of khipu...
...rebuff the gale. The cataclysm of Katrina has been blamed on everything from SUV drivers to coastal developers to the Army Corps of Engineers, in a strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one-hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people-suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands...