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...Bandwidth use has been growing steadily over the past year… it's a steep climb," says Manager of Network Engineering and Planning Leo Donnelly...
...mostly this is a story about people who get hurt by contributions, who are paying a steep personal price because of the influence exercised by unlimited money in elections and lobbying. These human casualties are mostly unchronicled, but you can count them in the millions. They are your friends and neighbors...
...mojo he can muster. If he loses in New Hampshire this week, his candidacy is almost certainly dead. And even if he squeaks past Bush in the Granite State, McCain will have no time to savor his victory, because he's got to keep climbing the impossibly steep cliff that stands between him and the nomination. His next jagged ledge on the way up: the Feb. 19 primary in South Carolina, where he trails Bush by a 20-point margin, 52% to 32%, in the latest TIME/CNN poll. That's down from a 47-point gap just two months...
...past three years, stories, rumors and superstition have swirled around the Htoo twins as mysteriously as the early morning mists that swathe the mountain forests where they live. Ka Mar Pa Law village lies on the side of a steep slope ringed with minefields, and the path is known only to local Karens who bring in supplies and a few visiting missionaries. There, in a huddle of thatched huts, the boys preside over an encampment with subsistence food, no electricity and little knowledge of the outside world. God's Army shuns strangers and mostly wants to be left alone...
...school which has a reputation for creative cheers, Cornell is on the steep decline. The only one I remember from last year's game went something like "Winning team! (point to Cornell players)--Losing team! (point to Harvard players...