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...CHARGES Iraq tried to import aluminum tubes, magnets and high-speed balancing machines, key components of uranium-enrichment centrifuges...
...people were seduced because, after all, it seemed true. If the city is the apogee of public life, the car became our private sanctuary from it. The little corner of London - or Paris or Madrid - on wheels that is mine, mine, mine. Today, however, the average traffic speed in London is just over 9 km/h. On some key roads, it has slowed to 2.9 km/h - slower than horse-and-cart days, slower than the rats running in the gutters. Londoners have the worst average commute time at 51 minutes per person, according to a recent survey, but Amsterdam residents only...
...hold in some corners. Newspapers and websites have shared suggestions for dodging the charge: from high-tech devices that blur the number plate at the flick of a switch to cruder tactics like rubbing mud all over the tag. Motorists Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras throughout the U.K., plans to torch, spray-paint and run over the congestion-fee cameras, too. "We've clearly paid for these roads already," says a member of the group, who declines to be named. "We're like sheep. The French wouldn't have it." Driving has never been...
...capitalize Harvard did, with two unassisted break-away goals. The first came of the stick of Moore in a penalty killing situation. Putting on a burst of speed, Moore skated through center ice and began a two-on-one break with junior Tyler Kolarik. Moore held the puck, faked and then spun, losing Northeastern defenseman Tim Judy, and glided past the net, freezing Gilhooly before ultimately wristing it past...
...Don’t you want to see these great bursts of speed?” Stone said. “To me, seeing the puck move fast and seeing people jump into holes is what it’s all about...