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major Duquesne is on tap this weekend, the Lions could move to 2-0 and eclipse last year’s win total before league play even begins...
...night-system sensor that can see things a naked eye cannot. The system would automatically prevent a collision. Another system protects a car from spinning even after its emergency brakes are applied. In the future we can develop a sleep-and-drive-prevention system, whereby a device will tap the sleeper and wake him up. I want to make it happen quickly. My dream is a system that would pick up the danger of collision and save the driver or passenger from being [ejected] and suffering injuries--something like a net that rescues a person before collision because there...
That cost itself is also worth questioning. It is rather wasteful to buy bottled water at all if you have access to clean tap water, which 1 billion people in the world lack. Not only do the bottles, refrigeration and transportation generate a great deal of waste and pollution, but the money ($9.8 billion in the U.S. annually) could be better spent on projects like those that Ethos is supporting. According to a great article by Tom Standage in the New York Times, “clean water could be provided to everyone on earth for an outlay...
...Canterbury after the Asian tsunami, before calling his country to deeper prayer. The search for answersis part of the natural journey of faith; it is a mystery beyond our understanding, or a part of a larger plan, or the price we pay for free will, or God's tap on the shoulder, calling us to attention and mercy...
...addition, former aides say there has always been enormous pressure on White House officials to take only the most vital decisions to Bush and let the bureaucracy deal with everything else. Bush does not appear to tap sources deep inside his government for information, the way his father or Bill Clinton did, preferring to get reports through channels. A highly screened information chain is fine when everything is going well, but in a crisis it can hinder. Louisiana officials say it took hours for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to reach Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly...