Word: tickly
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...must be the New Math. A well-meaning Department of Transportation proposal unveiled Tuesday aimed at curbing the number of hours that truckers work - a move that's supposed to cut down on driver fatigue and save about 100 lives a years - has managed to tick off both truckers and safety advocates. The safety folks say it could make the roads either more or less dangerous; truckers say it could lead to either more or less work; and everyone agrees it will soak the economy. The rule would limit truckers to one 12-hour shift per 24 hours. The current...
...undetected or unheeded. The FBI, which last fall circulated a 20-point "offender profile" culled from common characteristics of school shooters, will release a report on the topic next month. And the Secret Service, at work on its own study, is interviewing school shooters to see what makes them tick--and then explode...
...more money, we could do better in the next century--but only a little. If we sent an astronaut to the planet Mercury and she lived there for 30 years before returning, she would be about 22 seconds younger than if she had stayed on Earth. Clocks on Mercury tick more slowly than those on Earth because Mercury circles the sun at a faster speed (and also because Mercury is deeper in the sun's gravitational field; gravity affects clocks much as velocity does). Astronauts traveling away from Earth to a distance of 0.1 light years and returning...