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...pushed. The worms, known as Paralvinella sulfincola, can withstand conditions where water pressure reaches 4,000 psi and temperatures can change from 2 degrees to 350 degrees over a few millimeters. Girguis and his team recreated this temperature gradient on a smaller scale in their lab, constructing a tank of water that was cold on one end and hot on the other. Worms were then scattered randomly across the tank. Instead of standing still, as Girguis had expected them to, the worms all migrated to the region of the water that was roughly 50 degrees Celsius. This effectively mapped...
...Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered that the driver of the truck was illegally licensed, the tragedy helped set off the broader Ryan corruption investigation, which revealed a rampant scheme in which state workers were trading licenses for cash - going so far in some cases as to sign off on tests given...
Melanie Marsh knows something is wrong with her son Daniel. He won't let go of his Thomas the Tank Engine train. He walks on his toes and collects objects, especially anything disk shaped. And he isn't talking. When the diagnosis comes--Daniel is autistic--Melanie's very proper English husband Stephen walks out, leaving her to feel her way forward with only a mysterious child and an army of (mostly) unhelpful doctors to guide her. This is a tearful, joyful novel, and Leimbach (Dying Young) comes by tears and joy honestly: she has an autistic...
...tabloid, readers of the "quality" dailies - no more than 25% of any group wants to dump the royals. Even after a decade of tumult for the Windsors, 68% of Britons want to retain them. "That's astonishing," says Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabian Society, a think tank affiliated with the Labour Party. "It represents an absolute failure for British republicanism," to which he is instinctively sympathetic. In fact, there's no real debate at all on the future of the monarchy in Britain. Republicans want to abolish it, so won't discuss reform. The government won't touch...
Walt and Mearsheimer published a paper on the Kennedy School’s website last month arguing that “the Israel Lobby”—a loose coalition of politicians, journalists, think-tank scholars, and Jewish leaders—holds an excessive influence on U.S. foreign policy...