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...performances, by conductor Roland Bader and the Krakow Philharmonic and the inestimable Kronos Quartet, are excellent. And for those looking to recapture the magic of Symphony No. 3, the delicious trio of miniatures, In the Old Style, is just the ticket at a tenth the length...
...election polling is expensive, inaccurate and rarely performed. Shifts of as many as a few hundred votes in the weeks before the election can mean a candidate wins the ninth coveted leather seat in City Hall's council chambers--or finishes tenth and ends up watching the meetings from home on cable...
...election polling is expensive, inaccurate and rarely performed. Shifts of as many as a few hundred votes in the weeks before the election can mean a candidate wins the ninth coveted leather seat in City Hall's council chambers--or finishes tenth and ends up watching the meetings from home on cable...
...people these days dispute that rails are better for the environment. They give off only one-tenth to one-third the pollutants emitted by trucks. And the freight-rail's accident-fatality rate (per ton mile) is a third that of the trucking industry's. Virtually all the rail rights-of-way are owned and maintained by the railroads. The battered public highways used by trucks are constantly behind the maintenance curve...
...exception: the death toll, 26 late last week, was only a hair above the 23 killed by the mammoth flood of 1973 in many of the same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong...