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...depending on the distance of their journey. This has contributed to our debilitating dependence on foreign oil and has made our transportation system lag behind others in the developed world, as countries like South Korea, France, Taiwan, and Spain have invested heavily in relatively efficient, fast, and safe high-speed trains that connect major metropolitan areas. Even China, the world’s largest developing economy, is making strides in this area—one can now take a high-speed bullet train from Pudong airport to downtown Shanghai in less than 20 minutes...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Working on the Railroad | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...places on the earth - the Yucatan peninsula among them - have been seismically calm enough over the past several hundred thousand years to allow for such measurements.) But in the wake of the surprise breakaway of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which won't raise sea levels but will speed the melting of the remaining Antarctic ice, the Nature study is a grim warning of a potentially flooded future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coral Fossils Reveal Sea Levels Rising Fast | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...time" because of wind or other weather factors, and a lack of confidence in their ability to hit the target or flee if detected. Those shortcomings could be greatly reduced by the new longer-range rifle. How much longer range? "Specific system performance objectives (e.g., range, accuracy and target speed) are classified," the solicitation said. (See pictures of America's gun culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...continued presence of empty lots has riled residents already concerned about the slow speed of the development process, some of whom fear that the end of the construction efforts is impossibly far away...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Residents Work To Find Voice as University Expansion Crawls Forward | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Down 2-0 in the fourth, sophomore center fielder Dillon O’Neill led off the inning with a walk, giving the Crimson speed on the basepaths. A timely hit-and-run pulled BC shortstop Garret Smith towards the bag at second, leaving him unable to cleanly field a grounder from senior Taylor Meehan...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Lets Consolation Lead Slip Away | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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