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...sway a national election likeAfrican-Americans can," Woo says...
Progress has been made in designing earthquake-resistant--but not earthquake-proof--buildings. U.S. building codes are written to save lives, not prevent all damage. Modern structures are designed to sway and maybe even crack in a quake, but not to break apart and crush their inhabitants under falling debris. Says Bill Iwan, director of the earthquake engineering research laboratory at Caltech: ``With buildings, if you walk out after a quake, the designers did their...
Skyscrapers built to sway with a buckling earth and low-rise buildings that sit on rubber pads that act like shock absorbers, a common feature of hospital design, have proved their worth. In Kobe it appears that few, if any, buildings constructed after 1980, when a stricter code was enacted, were destroyed. And the widespread wreckage of wooden houses in Kobe is no clue to what might happen elsewhere; wooden houses in Northridge, built to a very different pattern, stood up well...
...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...
...appears that the absence of the 19 ballots is not enough to sway the results of the recount. But Neighbor said the board cannot certify the results until they account for the discrepancy...